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Message: 7279
Author: jetsetdanny
Date: 10/12/2020
Subject: Re: Jet Set Willy & Manic Miner Community is back!
Ian,
I do have all of the Yahoo! Group messages (and other content, such as pictures) saved, but I have never uploaded this material anywhere, if I remember correctly. The file/folder containing all the Yahoo! messages from the archive before the Group went down you mention was uploaded by John Elliott, I believe.
I do have, at the back of my mind, an intention to make all of the Group messages available online one day in the future, as individual pages, so that they become available to the general public once again and so that the many broken links to them on JSW Central become functional again. I know that Andrew does not explicitly approve of such a move, but I hope he won't oppose it actively, either, especially now that the Group will definitely become history and whatever restoration of it will be done, will be done for archival purposes only.
If and when I do it, I will certainly add the messages that were sent after the demise of the Group's visual interface. I believe I do have copies of all the messages sent over the past year.
However, this future task has a very low priority on my long MM/JSW to-do list. It is, more than anything else, a concept of what should be done at some future point. I will see if someone else does it first or if the Group is archived "officially" on the Wayback Machine perhaps (I understand there's a remote possibility of this happening). If neither happens in the next few years, chances are I will get down to this task one day.
Daniel
From: manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com <manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of Jet Set Danny <manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 10 December 2020 04:29
To: manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com <manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy] Jet Set Willy & Manic Miner Community is back!
Jet Set Willy & Manic Miner Community, a forum dedicated to these two classic games, their numerous variants and new games using their game engines (original or modified/extended) is back online after a four months' break. It is running on a new server, with upgraded software.
It is alive and kicking, too: a brand new game - "Manic Panic" v. 1.5 by Norman Sword - has just been added to the Downloads section.
Do join us to continue discussing these evergreen platformers and/or the development of their remakes and new variants! 
Sadly, Yahoo! Groups will be shut down on 15 December, 2020 and you will no longer be able to send or receive e-mails from Yahoo! Groups, including this one. So a week from now Jet Set Willy & Manic Miner Community may be the only place on the web dedicated specifically to the discussions of our favourite subject.
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