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Fantastic! Wonderful! Thank you!
Although this may trigger a pile-on, I would like to ask those who don't want their posts to be included in the archives to reconsider, if those requests stand in the way of archiving Ovarit. Here's why:
Ovarit is a valuable part of feminist history and we want it to be available online forever.
We all posted here, under handles that we chose, and let our posts sit here on a website that anyone in the world could see for years and years. Why would we backtrack on that decision now? What's the difference between the world seeing your post on ovarit.com or seeing it on ovarit-archive.com?
If you really, truly don't want your posts visible on ovarit-archive.com, you still have a month to go back through the site and delete them all. Please do not place that burden on someone else's shoulders.
But if the archive's 90% complete, it's too late?
Yeah I'm just gonna have to rerun a lot of it to make sure any deletions are not included.