So the benefit is more to the community than to oneself per se?
Just skimming by, so apologies if someone else has a better answer...
A long long while back I was involved in a particular fandom, left, changed computers several times, moved twice, lost floppy disks (it was a looong time ago), re-discovered said fandom but with a different group of people, found floppy disks but had no way of reading them since any computer with a floppy drive had long since been retired, and knew there were a couple of things I'd written that I really wanted to dust off and clean up. Luck would have it that two of those stories had been archived off a mailing list, and voila! Back in action. It's doubtful that either of those stories would've been missed by fandom, but I was happy to have them back, and I really didn't have to search too hard to find them, not like scrolling through years of mail list posts, since this was pre-journal days.
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Date: 2010-03-19 04:51 pm (UTC)Just skimming by, so apologies if someone else has a better answer...
A long long while back I was involved in a particular fandom, left, changed computers several times, moved twice, lost floppy disks (it was a looong time ago), re-discovered said fandom but with a different group of people, found floppy disks but had no way of reading them since any computer with a floppy drive had long since been retired, and knew there were a couple of things I'd written that I really wanted to dust off and clean up. Luck would have it that two of those stories had been archived off a mailing list, and voila! Back in action. It's doubtful that either of those stories would've been missed by fandom, but I was happy to have them back, and I really didn't have to search too hard to find them, not like scrolling through years of mail list posts, since this was pre-journal days.