[game_preservation] IGN is closing the Gamespy and Classicgaming networks

[Jim Leonard]

Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> I'll really have to get into the web archiving stuff, get some crawlers 

> running off my PC for things like this and get some hard drives to store 

> it all on - for the Web Archive Team efforts I'd hope.


Also, Jason Scott's "Archive Team" (http://www.archiveteam.org) should 
probably be contacted.  They have a good portion of Geocities archived, 
and if they can do that, they can probably suck down Classicgaming.
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