On 20/08/06, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Dear all,
I was trying to find a permalink to a mail (to this list) that I had
in my Inbox from August 2005. After ages of searching, doublechecking,
and much confusion, I'm pretty sure that a substantial chunk of the
archive from that month is missing.
If you go to the 'by date' view for that month
<http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2005-August/date.html>,
there's a post from Robert Horning sent on the 6th [1], immediately
followed by a post from Walter van Kalken sent on the 14th [2].
So, I'm wondering if anyone else can shed some light on this, or how I
could go about referencing a mail sent between those dates?
WikiEN-l is also missing mail from those dates (I had the same problem
as you...). I asked about it in December.
On 29/12/05, Mark Ryan <ultrablue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The mailing list server(s) suffered some sort of
catastrophic meltdown
and the data they contained was lost. The developers had to reinstate
a week-old backup of the entire mailing list server, including bans
and subscriptions (on multiple, if not all, lists). This meant that
users who had unsubscribed during that week started getting list mail
again and those who had subscribed stopped getting the mail. It was
very inconvenient.
Not much help, but at least it explains what happened.
No, but thanks very much for clearing that up, Andrew. So, absolutely
nothing we can do, right?
Cormac