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Re: [grubstreet] Disaster :(

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From: Ivor Williams
Subject: Re: [grubstreet] Disaster :(
Date: 20:30 on 25 Sep 2002
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From: "Kate L Pugh" <kake@xxxxx.xx>
To: <grubstreet@xxxxxxx.xxxxx.xx>
Sent: 25 September 2002 11:14
Subject: Re: [grubstreet] Disaster :(


> On Mon 23 Sep 2002, Earle Martin <earle@xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> > Kake - you may be able to extract something from what you got with
> > Plucker, is that possible?
>
> (a) Doesn't seem that anyone's written anything to do this, although
>     people on IRC helped me find specs and things.
>
> (b) Given that I can't see even parts of relevant strings (I tried things
>     like "gru" and "ond") in the database, it looks like I overwrote the
>     one that had grubstreet in it :(  I'd thought I'd made a couple of
>     files, but I wanted to take relevant stuff to Munich and the one with
>     grubstreet in was just too big.  Sorry.
>
> Are we at the limit of what we can get from backups now?  ie, shall we
> just get back to reconstructing it from google and memory?  I'm not
> sure I can be arsed with the temporary updates thing, so I'll wait for
> you to give the go-ahead before I do anything.
>
Can we not use the wikibeta site from the.earth.li and see if we can reconstruct subsequent change using this as a basis? We could
drop in my patch at the same time so that the +links will work.

Just a thought.

Ivor.



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