Lazarus Archive · LZ-20408

Correspondence of Elias Dahl, 1996–1999

Elias Dahl, 1996–1999. Correspondence for the web.

Description

112 thousand messages sent and received by a ferry captain in Moorwater.

Provenance

Deposited by the creator, who asked for it to be kept for their grandchildren. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. All files were recovered; 58 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
68ab29507d8f90bd4515fbe74635d439da68a90f0e81deb2f49c0b3375393945
Last verified
Oct 12, 2026, by Vigil
Migrated to
EML and PDF/A-2b, with the original mailboxes kept
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
None. Captured over the network.

Access

Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.

Reading-room copies are migrated to EML and PDF/A-2b, with the original mailboxes kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.

Cite as: Elias Dahl, Correspondence of Elias Dahl, 1996–1999 (1996–1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-20408.

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