Retrieving old, yet awesome stories by Lynda

[martineasy (imported)]

Currently there are eight stories on the archive by an author who goes by Lynda; if you have not read her story 'Wild Alaska' I STRONGLY recommend doing so! It is amazing... Like me she likes to incorporate the themes of castration, penectomy, clitoridectomy and FGM into the same story; her work is incredibly stimulating. Yet unlike me she is actually talented at writing lol- Wild Alaska reads likes its the beginning of a novel which promises to be a real page turner.

Anywho- these eight stories span from 2001, 2002, and 2003... It seems obvious that much of her work didn't make it over from the old website; is there anyway they could be recovered and made available? I've had zero luck trying to interact with the robot.txt or whatever it is view some of the stories that weren't able to be transferred over.

If anyone is capable and willing to help out that would wonderful!

Cheers

[martineasy (imported)]

Well I put a little work in on this matter this morning and its a bit of a bust :/

Using the internet archive site waybackmachine I was able to see archived version of the EA from years passed, and behold Lynda only ever posted 12 stories in total. Unfortunately the robot.txt function does not work so I am unable to read the four stories unavailable in the current eunuch archive, but life goes on lol.

Meh.

[martineasy (imported)]

For anyone who read Wild Alaska and cares- I found this response from the author to a review of her story sans 2002.

Lynda says: "Thanks for the good reviews. I've been getting alot of feedback on Wild Alaska and the other stories.

A couple of thoughts about Wild Alaska. All of the perpetrators were adult and could control what Bertram and Clara did so the whole incident could be kept quiet. Even with the Internet they're isolated. Although there have been Federal intrusions into places like the Branch Davidian compound in Waco and at Ruby Ridge because the authorities felt children were at risk, both of these groups had a political axe to grind and attracted attention by purposely isolating themselves. At Hidden Cove, there is no reason for the authorities to drop by a legitimate business that is successfully run. The kids are still sending in their homework, everything is normal, who is going to check.

Someone asked me if it really happened. Maybe.

Didn't like Clara getting cut? She deserved it, she was the one who killed her father, she thought she would inherit the lodge. Justice works in strange ways. Oh, and Bertram was cheating on his sister with Trudy and Maude, a really bad idea.

...

Lynda"

[ttswitch (imported)]

For the robots.txt issue with archive.org, we would likely need someone with admin or editing rights to http://www.eunuch.org/robots.txt to make the changes to remove the "Disallow: /Alpha/" line from it. Not sure who that would be though.

[kristoff]

For the robots.txt issue with archive.org, we would likely need someone with admin or editing rights to http://www.eunuch.org/robots.txt to make the changes to remove the "Disallow: /Alpha/" line from it. Not sure who that would be though.

It wouldn't be anyone here. we don't own archive.org, and have no editing capabilities. Repeated for about the fortieth time.

[martineasy (imported)]

It wouldn't be anyone here. we don't own archive.org, and have no editing capabilities. Repeated for about the fortieth time.

I beg your pardon, to whom?

[kristoff]

I beg your pardon, to whom?

Read the forums, many times over the past couple of years. enough about robots.txt. We cant do anything about it. I will start blocking repeat posts. enough.

[ttswitch (imported)]

I guess I am not explaining it well enough. It is the robots.txt file at www.eunuch.org/robots.txt that we would want to get edited, not anything at archive.org.

What archive.org does is their server looks at the current robots.txt file on a website, and if it has that disallow flag for a directory, it blocks all the old archives they have of that directory. If that disallow flag for the /alpha/ directory is removed from the current www.eunuch.org/robots.txt file, archive.org should recognize that and allow access to the old story archives again, and we could try to start pulling over the stories that got lost.

It is a silly policy on archive.org's part, as it blocks a lot of old websites now when they don't need to be.

[Paolo]

As I understand it, stories were once stored on eunuch.org/alpha/A/...

for example, if the story title began with letter "A".

Stories are now stored on eunuchworld.org and there is no /alpha/ directory.

It is now something like http://www.eunuchworld.org/view.php?storyid=xxxx

Of course that's not a valid link, just an example.

My question is this: What does a file on eunuch.org have to do with data stored on archive.org ?

If it goes looking for that /alpha/ directory, it's not going to find it.

So we'd be talking about downloading the robots.txt file from the eunuch.org directory, removing that line, and then replacing robots.txt on eunuch.org's server with the edited file?

Admittedly, I haven't been paying too much attention to this discussion, because as the old saying goes, "It's Greek to me."

[ttswitch (imported)]

Yes, we woul

d be talking about downloading the robots.txt file from the eunuch.org directory,

editing it to remove that line and then replace the file on eunuch.org with the edited file. You can see the issue with these links:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110107120 ... al=stories

That link works, because /main/ is not disallowed in

http://www.eunuch.org/robots.txt,

but this link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110107180 ... 1_has_.htm

doesn't work because /alpha/ is disallowed in the file. It is definitely a silly policy that archive.org uses to look at the current website to decide which of their data is accessible, but they do.