Hello Rick, nice to meet up with you again over here on NGA, it's me (AntMan01, aka The Onion Man)
You opening post reads like a fine Eulogy for an old friend past, Alpine-L. It certainly did serve it's purpose in its hey day. I'm responding here, as Alpine-L List-Owner for the past 7 years, to supply a working link to the text archives, the one you posted is to an old location prior to Eric Gouda moving it to a different server location, so the link does not work.
http://www.mail-archive.com/al...
I had a second link to archives in my Alpine-L signature block, I liked it better because it gave instant access to full archives, in the link above, I believe it was to a backup archive and that backup-to-archive would only happen occasionally. So in this link the archive stops after March 2017, not that much was posted the remainder of 2017, just the regular monthly announcement posts by two users. So the final truncated archive missed the few posts in December regarding the closing of the list. It appears that when the Alpine-L Listserv was physically turned off, so too were the live pre-archives.
