>Now what about the gaps!?
>
>--- from founding date(??) up to 23-Jan-1994
>--- 02-Apr-1996 to 27 July 1996


I have a few from April 1 to June 17, 1996


>--- 29Jan 1997 to 23 May 1997 the closure on 23 May 1997


Probably have those somewhere too.


>That adds up to over 7 months --- not negligible.  If it was
>pumping 100 posts per month as Staz says, we are looking for
>700 and more missing posts to add the 2500 I have so far.
>
>AOL veterans (I know your names!), check your records, and
>send me what you have.
>
>Our own associate list records the demise of the list on  AOL
>thus:
>
> >Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 20:56:46 -0700
> >From: R Covington <t88@...>
> >Subject: Taps for Ariel on AOL...
> >
> >AOL finally shut down the Ariel Forum (as foreboded for weeks).
> >...
> >Robert Covington

Wow, I paid them guys a lot of money. :)   7 years*12*$21  (or worse,
before they had the unlimited plan)  $2000+

Sure could use it right now.

Somewhere, on an old hard drive or a ZIP disk that is hopefully not "Click
Of Death"-ified or otherwise degaussed, I have every uploaded example  file
from both FB Forums, and pretty sure a log of all posts I could get. I know
BB has the files too I believe.


Back then Bowelbird's Log of Log's or whatever the name, was essential for
log reading when archiving the beasties... which was a matter of setting up
the log, then clicking though every post in sequence...yes, all of them.

Will load up the ZIP drive and hope some archive shows up in what I have
indexed.

 I know 3 of my disks were killed by a bad drive. Hopefully the FB stuff
wasn't on there.

Robert Bob