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Hm..I don't have it...just checked my storage...."that" file I don't have.
Hopefully someone else has it backed up.
as I have mentioned before...
I reiterate the obvious need to consolidate .
in the face of the disappearances ...not just this file...penguinbait's site is gone as well..his pages are available through wayback though the linked downloads of his valuable work via the wayback are shot. they will not work. I have saved (I believe ) all pertinent files and programs and have them available on my google drive. for now.
Just as example... we should somehow integrate these posts..this data somehow/ way/ where in our place here. I know it is more like damage control and reconstruction in this case...but it need not be as bad as the penguinbait situation. Mitigating the amount of work needed is simple in cases where stuff (for now) is still maintained.
Contacting the owners/ maintainers of sites/ progs/ data/ walkthroughs and gaining their permissions to draw their data here for safe keeping would be simpler and easier than trying to find individuals who may or may not have bits and pieces left over from something that once was a complete ...from downloads, patches, walkthroughs, bug reports, and valuable user feedback ..to say the least.
In my experience... a few times now... I have found that after a great deal of hunting down a hope ...resulted in finding nothing left but a program to install. No instructions ...no reference..nothing to go on. It isn't the norm yet...but it could become the norm. Broken bits and pieces and references ...at best.

Instead of being reactive after the fact.
Or do nothing and let time swallow a great deal of work and innovation.
I favour the idea we become proactive.
To hunt down stragglers outside of the safe-keeping of maemo.org
whether they are programs, catalogues, repositories, how-to's, whole sites of data ...etc.
I mention this for the NIT line specific of course...for I see them in the greatest immediate need due to the length of time some sites have been standing...running...those maintainers cannot do it forever..once abandoned such invaluable data can most certainly be lost for good...
I do suggest a community dialogue to address this...to stem this "erosion by degrees"
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