Earlier, I was trying to download a file from archives.thebbs.org, and while their site is still up, and FTP site is still running, it seems their FTP site is empty. I was able to log into their FTP site (using a FTP program, since web browsers no longer support FTP), and I was able
to log in (using "anonymous" for the username and an email address for
the password), but when I do a ls, no files are listed. It seems their FTP site is empty.
Does anyone know if there is a mirror or backup of archives.thebbs.org available?
Earlier, I was trying to download a file from archives.thebbs.org,
and while their site is still up, and FTP site is still running, it
seems their FTP site is empty. I was able to log into their FTP
site (using a FTP program, since web browsers no longer support
FTP), and I was able to log in (using "anonymous" for the username
and an email address for the password), but when I do a ls, no files
are listed. It seems their FTP site is empty.
That's a huge bummer, though it's been clear that the site has been on autopilot for many years now, to the point where it could barely even function as archive at this point. I can't say I'm too shocked. :/
Digital Man (author of Synchronet) said he was able to download from archive.thebbs.org recently using Internet Explorer. I just tried that, and sure enough, it was able to download from their FTP site. It make
me wonder what Internet Exporer is doing differently, because it
appeared to me that the files on their FTP site were all gone..
What I *do* know is that as an end user it all feels practically unusable these days, and I seriously question the value of putting up a file archive if you won't let people, you know, download from it. :P Honestly,
I never intended to mirror the site in the first place, but I got so annoyed with simply trying to use it casually to grab a few files that it kicked off this whole scheme of trying to figure it out and get around it.
I am a bit concerned about the site/files actually going away at some point though. It might be handy if the site was mirrored and/or
uploaded to the Internet Archive or something.
I'm not sure if you took a look at that link I posted yet, but it was indeed a *mostly* complete mirror of the site that had been uploaded to the Internet Archive.
I just had a look. Interesting that that was posted there, and good to see.
<...> and this one seems to be more thorough, even containing a bunch of jp> files that were in some hidden directories not on the site (and that I jp> failed to include in my own archiving efforts.)
Probably not coincidentally, someone just posted *another* version of the an archive of the site to archive.org, and this one seems to be more thorough, even containing a bunch of files that were in some hidden directories not on the site (and that I failed to include in my own archiving efforts.) I'd recommend checking this one out instead:
https://archive.org/details/bbsarchives_2017
Despite the one star review of the archive, I can assure you that from my efforts and a brief look through the contents, it does in fact appear to be legitimate.
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