On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:52:48 -0600, "mr.bill" <mrbill@invalid.lss>
wrote:
>On 2 Dec 2008 18:48:01 -0600, Servic wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:30:29 -0600, mrbill@invalid.lss (mr.bill)
>>wrote:
>>
>> Thank you mr.bill for your precious gift. Your help is hard to
>>overestimate. Now I will be able to compare what I have and that I
>>must have.
>>Can I ask you not very modest question. What source is the most
>>faithful and complete among csv sets?
>>?nce more thank you very much mr.bil.
>
>As has been said simply by others, LS never issued official csv's of
>their files. Therefore, everything has been done second-hand and after
>the fact. Will we ever have an error free collection? Maybe it's
>better to ask, how close to the truth can we come?
>
>Probably none of us will ever make a perfect LS csv compilation.
>However, n@@dles has set the bar for the rest of us. I can only imagine
>the countless hundreds of hours of work he put into getting his
>collection to the state of near perfection it's in today.
>
>Hopefully, over time, more of what's missing in his collection of csv's
>will turn up so the state of the art can be advanced. We are fast
>closing in on the goal of a complete and nearly error free set of csv's
>for all of LS.
>
>Here's the scoop on the csv authors:
>
>Count Draculol may have ripped some web sites, but depended on the
>concerted efforts of a group known as the "Hussy Mafia" in order to
>create his famous index and csv set. Despite the best of efforts, a few
>errors crept into his work. For LS collectors, the sad fact is that his
>work was released while LS was still in its infancy so to speak.
>Therefore it is woefully incomplete.
>
>Bourne is an unknown entity. It is anybody's guess where he got his
>files. What we can surmise is that either he or his source for the
>files he indexed had a penchant to fix LS's "mistakes". While his files
>themselves seem to be generally authentic, there are instances of images
>being permanently rectified that were issued sideways by LS, and
>multiple cases where renumbering occured to fit some logical sequence.
>
>N@@dles got many of his files from post bust websites as near as I can
>tell, and has received a certain amount of flak over that. His
>cataloguing methods are unsurpassed for adherence to detail. He
>personally examines all his images for the tell-tale signs of
>authenticity. He only issues a csv for those sets where he is 110%
>certain of their accuracy. Some sets are therefore absent from his
>work.
>
>Mr.bill never got a single file from a website. All his work has been
>in comparing and sorting files gotten from usenet or otherwise. He
>authored several computer programs to help in the work but all are for
>his personal use only. His work is still ongoing.
>
>Servic, if you've been around long enough, you know there are other
>sources of csv's. These are made from what's handy, not what's good.
>Sometimes you get lucky, but in one instance, a csv was issued
>containing only a single 'cover' image and omitting the over 8800 other
>images in the series. Haphazard work like this doesn't inspire
>confidence. Stick with the four I provided and compare, compare,
>compare.
Dear mr.bill your message sounds like undiscovered until the end
secret. Thank you for very useful information. I am absolutely aware
that even the authors of these pictures could not now answer some
questions related to their issued series.
First of all, I propose to examine with pics in my collection.
My aim to gather the most complete as possible collection of LSM and
not only it. You will not object if, in some cases, I will contact you
for help?
With regards,
Servic
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