Han/Luke Slash (Star Wars): Elusive Lover

[morgandawn]

 The  co-founder and moderator of the of the first Han/Luke slash archive Elusive Lover is contacting Open Doors in the hopes they will migrate her now dead archive to AO3.  The site went down in 2009 when the tech person maintaining it drifted away, but Cara is still around and most of the stories are archived on the Internet Archive. It is small  so if a manual migration is necessary, it should be easy.   In any event, the ownership of the original domain name is now back in fandom hands (pointing to the WayBack Machine for now) so you can peruse it here: http://elusivelover.com/

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[catalenamara]

That's great news. I lost the US version of the print masters for Cara's zines in the fire.

[morgandawn]

Cara is sending me a package of some of her fanzines. Also we found out that open doors may not be willing to assist in transferring the website. Apparently even though she is the cofounder and moderator. they are requiring the permission from the person who provided the original tech support for the website? Even though the website has been off-line for eight years and we have access to the files ? it may be that they don't think she has the authority to transfer her own archive over to them. or they have a technical misunderstanding and don't understand that she has the files and we still own the domain name? It is a bit confusing and I'm not sure I have the information correct. I'm hoping they can straighten it out.

[vysila]

Are they looking for the original tech person? I can get hold of her. But if they are looking for the second set of domain holders (the .net crew) I have lost touch with them. Part of the problem may be that there never was an elusivelover.com domain registered. It was initially .de and then .net.

Let Cara know I am willing to help as needed. I have not heard from her in a long time. vysila at comcast dot net will reach me

[morgandawn]

I'm not certain what the issue is ... am getting this second hand. I'll pass your contact info along

EL migrated across 3 websites and parts of each site is archived at the WBM - .net .de and .com The.net is now owned by a Japanese dating site. The .de is still available and we just re-registered the .com

I think the plan is asking for help in moving the .com over as that is the most recent version.

You can see the path of the site here: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Elusive_Lover_(Star_Wars_archive)

.de 2000-2004
.net 2004-2008
.com 2009-2014

I don't think this is a question of domain name ownership. It seems more like they sent her a boilerplate message where they assume the site is still active and they will need the site maintainers assistance to access the files. The site has been offline for years and in the past Open Doors has said they are able to port over dead sites as long as the files were still available

EL import

[(Anonymous)]

Hi there, vysila! Oh goodness, I'm so glad Morgan sent me this link, so that I can get in touch with you! Yippie! :D I sent you an email about two weeks ago (a much delayed response to your message from the end of January), but perhaps that mail account is no longer active, or perhaps my letter got lost. I've been having longterm problems with my old email account (hence the long delayed reply!), but it's finally working again. I'd be totally delighted to hear from you sometime!

And - back on topic at last! - thanks so much for offering help with the Open Doors import! I'm still in the process of sorting through the requirements and looking through the files I have (and what I'm missing), but once that's all done, I'm sure the work will be manageable. Thanks again! And do get in touch when you can. :)

Re: EL import

[vysila]

*hugs you fiercely* As if I couldn't guess who wrote that!

I did not receive the email you sent some weeks back, not sure why. But I am about to send you another one to the email you specified, so be on the lookout for it. Fingers crossed that the Comcast spam filters don't eat this one too.

As far as EL goes, I'd love to help in any way I can. Another project with you? A joy waiting to happen.

Re: EL import

[(Anonymous)]

*Yay!* *Many hugs back*! Oh, I'll be sure to watch out for your email, and hopefully you'll receive my reply this time! Talk to you soon! :)))

Re: EL import

[(Anonymous)]

I just emailed you back... fingers crossed that my message will go through this time!

(morgandawn, apologies for highjacking your account for this exchange - along with much gratitude :)

P.S. from Cara

[(Anonymous)]

Duh, guess I should have mentioned my name in that "Anonymous" message above!!
And my restarted and now properly maintained email address is cara.loup(a)snafu.de
:)

[catalenamara]

Well, that's frustrating! I hope this is just a minor misunderstanding and the site can be transferred over. Please do post when you find out the answer. Best of luck to her!

[morgandawn]

I think she and them have ironed out the confusion. will update as I get more info

[catalenamara]

Hope so! It'd be great to see that work on AO3.

[vysila]

And thank you from me too, morgandawn, for letting Cara and I hijack your post so we could re-establish contact info. Success has been achieved and we'll get to work on figuring out how to deal with the Open Door folk.

And thank you so much from me for giving Cara the link to this discussion! I haven't talked to her in soooo long...

[vysila]

Just a heads up that I have added 5 of my stories to the EL collection on AO3 and it appears you will need to approve them. I thought I'd done that ages ago when you first asked, but obviously not. Let me know if I did something wrong again and they don't show up. The rest of my stories were never actually published on the EL website as I had my own website by that time.

[morgandawn]

Thank you. I didn't get any ntifications

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/ElusiveLover/works

MD

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[vysila]

Thanks, that was fast! :)

I sure hope your home repair woes are going smoothly. (I can sympathize - a big leak was discovered under my brand new roof that the roofer ignored and the sewer backed up on Friday). Owning a home means never-ending repairs, doesn't it?