fidonet archives
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sai_ruk · 2022-04-23 07:23

Does anyone know what happened to the fidonet nodelist archives on
[wiamail.de](https://wiamail.de)?

Is there an alternate service?

Thanks

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sai_ruk · 2022-04-23 07:29

looks like its back now, guess i caught it at a bad time

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germdisco · 2022-04-23 15:49

Is it on archive.org?

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denzuko · 2022-04-23 19:06

Got a project on my github for archiving fidonet with elasticsearch.
One can also read on google groups thanks to the several fidonet to
usenet gates.


Also checkout https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/76xutq/old
\_usenet\_fidonet\_archives/

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sai_ruk · 2022-04-24 00:14

Damn, looks like the site is still having issues today, intermittently
available. I'll see if I can track down the owner, if anyone knows who
runs it please shoutout

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sai_ruk · 2022-04-24 00:14

Thanks, I know there are some message collections on there but I was
specifically looking for nodelist archives. The search is failing me
in that regard

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germdisco · 2022-04-24 00:16

Another place to check is textfiles.com

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sai_ruk · 2022-04-24 00:27

should add most wayback urls i've hit are 400 bad request for this
site

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sai_ruk · 2022-04-24 00:29

Thanks for this, did you have the link to your gh project? I'd like to
take a look

I am specifically looking for the fidonet nodelist archives currently,
not the messages (yet), I am trying to look historically at bbses by
region.

I did mirror the [wiamail.de](https://wiamail.de) archive a while ago,
i'll put up what I have so its not lost, (probably github and run it
like the 16c archiv)e, they had a nice node search available as well
so it'd be a real shame if it was gone.

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sai_ruk · 2022-04-24 00:38

Site finally loaded the owner details page on a refresh, I have
emailed them advising of the intermittent access.

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sai_ruk · 2022-04-24 00:48

found and alt source for the nodelists

https://www.kuehlbox.wtf/files/fidohist

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denzuko · 2022-04-24 01:19

Oh.. the nodelists. Yeah I've been archiving the messages and
filebases. I'm sure that r/datahoarder post has some good resources
for nodelists. I'd also encourage one to check out Jason scott's
archive: [http://www.textfiles.com/fidonet-on-the-
internet/nodediff.htm](http://www.textfiles.com/fidonet-on-the-
internet/nodediff.htm) and also filegate: [http://www.filegate.net/pub
/nodelist/](http://www.filegate.net/pub/nodelist/)

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sai_ruk · 2022-04-24 10:12

yeh sorry, the title should've been clearer but longer term i'm
interested in all the messages as well, just happens that right now I
am digging into nodelists

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Iron_Slug · 2022-04-24 23:26

My collection of nodelists is here:

https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/files/fidonet/nodelist/

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sai_ruk · 2022-04-25 00:10

Thank you, I should've checked IPTIA. didn't even occur to me
yesterday.

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