On 6/9/22 19:53, Nightfox wrote:

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?

AFAIK, there aren't mirrors, beyond that the dowloads are throttled, so
best to have a queue downloader that does one at a time.

Have thought about creating an archive and putting on my DO file
storage. I can't imagine the downloads would be too bad with a file for
bots to completely ignore is added.
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Re: Re: archives.thebbs.org files gone
By: Tracker1 to Nightfox on Tue Jun 21 2022 01:37 pm

AFAIK, there aren't mirrors, beyond that the dowloads are throttled, so
best to have a queue downloader that does one at a time.

Have thought about creating an archive and putting on my DO file
storage. I can't imagine the downloads would be too bad with a file for bots to completely ignore is added.

i talked to pcmike and he said nothing is wrong.
i've been using it for decades and the behavior changed for me.
you have to type in anonymous and then a valid email to download now.
before i would just click

on reddit someone posted a 2017 'mirror' of the bbs archives.
it appears that they used a script to try to grab the files.
after comparing for a few minutes, i see that this is not a complete archive.

then i did some further digging and i see THIS archive and an older one on archive.org. it appears someone got the files from jack phlash[he mentioned someone gave him files years ago] and combined it with files from some mirroring effort.

here is an image i made comparing them both. you need to scroll https://i.imgur.com/bfQZSxB.png

you see it's mostly the same stuff but directories are renamed.
anyways, this is not a legit bbs archives mirror. yes, it's files but we all have bbs files. it's nothing special and it's only like 1.7, 1.8gigs.

people are better off getting a simtelnet archive and nightowl, etc collection form cd.textfiles.com
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