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On August 20, 2003, the master_apprentice mailing list disappeared from yahoo!groups. By the end of the day, we came to understand that the list had been deleted in a general sweep -- the list had three (I think) moderators, but the one listed as the owner also owned other lists, at least one of which was chan-centric. There was a complaint, the chan list was non-TOS-compliant, and all lists owned by that owner were bounced.
It sucked a lot. I see while I'm link-hunting that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
emrinalexander has referred to it as well. It sucked mightily. And we had no option to recover any of it -- no warning, it was just gone. (I understand that the Export feature of LJ will export entries but not comments, making that a particularly bittersweet half-loaf.) Four years. The fic was in another archive, but the discussions were lost.
At the time, the "my fandom ..." icon craze was still functioning, and I posted these and got some takers. Obviously these are all Star Wars-prequel related, with the one exception, but I'm happy to do others now that I've got my photoshop up and running. (My fandom will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.) Or, you know, just to reflect that what's happening now has happened before, and it sucked then, and it sucks now, and we got through it then, and ... .
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It sucked a lot. I see while I'm link-hunting that
emrinalexander has referred to it as well. It sucked mightily. And we had no option to recover any of it -- no warning, it was just gone. (I understand that the Export feature of LJ will export entries but not comments, making that a particularly bittersweet half-loaf.) Four years. The fic was in another archive, but the discussions were lost.At the time, the "my fandom ..." icon craze was still functioning, and I posted these and got some takers. Obviously these are all Star Wars-prequel related, with the one exception, but I'm happy to do others now that I've got my photoshop up and running. (My fandom will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.) Or, you know, just to reflect that what's happening now has happened before, and it sucked then, and it sucks now, and we got through it then, and ... .
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