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morgandawn ([personal profile] morgandawn) wrote2018-05-15 10:48 pm

Han/Luke Slash (Star Wars): Elusive Lover

 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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[personal profile] catalenamara 2018-05-17 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
That's great news. I lost the US version of the print masters for Cara's zines in the fire.
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[personal profile] vysila 2018-05-17 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
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

EL import

(Anonymous) 2018-05-17 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
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about two weeks ago (a much delayed response to your message from the end of January), but perhaps that mail account is no longer active, or perhaps my letter got lost.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. :)
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Re: EL import

[personal profile] vysila 2018-05-17 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
*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) 2018-05-17 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
*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) 2018-05-17 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
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) 2018-05-17 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
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
:)
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[personal profile] catalenamara 2018-05-20 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
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!
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[personal profile] catalenamara 2018-05-20 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Hope so! It'd be great to see that work on AO3.
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[personal profile] vysila 2018-05-17 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
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...
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[personal profile] vysila 2018-05-20 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] vysila 2018-05-20 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
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?