[bradknowles]

The last time I tried to do anything with or for the Archive Team, it was a mostly "just watch us work" sort of deal.

The tools couldn't be built without additional knowledge that wasn't published anywhere -- because there had been drift from what was published versus what was working, and those changes never got folded back in. And there were multiple versions and variants of the tools, with different teams using different versions or variants.

And once you built the tools, you couldn't get your Warrior into the list to be used, although you could always run your systems separately.

It's not like you could sign up for a SETI@Home type initiative and just let your equipment run.

I understand why they work this way. It's a very insular crowd, and new people and resources seem to disappear as quickly as they showed up.

So, they let you watch.

If you stay around long enough (months? years?), then they might let you start participating. But I wasn't willing to wait that long.