From: rcf243@nyu.edu   
      
   As the new season of MST3K premieres, I've gone back and thought about the   
   great MSTing tradition that's laid (mostly) moribund these past 14 years since   
   the deletion of WS#9. As time moves onward, I've become worried about the   
   survival of this fictional    
   form (some of the Google Groups links on The MSTing Mine have started to   
   become inactive). To this end, over the past several weeks, I've started to   
   archive .txt files of MSTings on my computer, starting with some of the more   
   prominent ones. I've    
   attempted to use my memory (as well as surviving records) of past MSTing   
   Awards, along with what the general consensus was at the time, to put together   
   a "canon" of sorts, which I'm hoping to host on a website, and which can serve   
   as an intro for any    
   newcomers that might be interested, post S11 of MST3K, in looking into what   
   this community was all about. Perhaps, in addition to MST3K itself returning,   
   the MSTing tradition might have a shot at a revival as well?   
      
   I've been able to find the vast vast majority of MSTings that I'm interested   
   in archiving/including, but a handful have eluded me.To that end, I have a   
   couple of requests for MSTing information that people might have available:   
      
   -MSTing Award nominations for 1999-2001. 1995-1998 are available in Google   
   Groups still (along with part of 2000), and I think that pre-1995 is   
   reconstructable using Wayback Machine archives of WS#9. This would probably   
   help jog my mind a little and come    
   up with some stuff I might have forgotten.   
      
   -Actual copies of the following MSTings:   
   -"Shadows in the Mist" by Melvin Pollack   
   -"Expanding Negaverse" by Bryan Lambert   
   - "Manos 2" by Kevin Ramsey and others   
   -"Dr. Minotaur and the Utaalk" (only certain sections are available via the   
   Wayback machine) by Jen White   
   -"Shinra's Revenge?" by RJak   
      
   -And a final personal request:   
      
    I wrote a handful of MSTings myself from 2001-2003 in my early teenage years.   
   They probably weren't very good, but they were some of the earliest writing   
   projects (and some of the only completed ones) that I've ever done. However,   
   as they were saved on    
   floppy disks, I now have no personal record of them. The only other places I   
   knew them to be located were on WS#9, and my Geocities site (now also   
   defunct). They were MSTed under the name Yesmar, and their titles were   
   "Mushroom Kingdom Madness," "The    
   Least One Can Do," "Ego Trip 2002," and "Any Given Day."   
      
   I know that some people had saved archives of WS#9 MStings at some point, and   
   if anyone has these archived somewhere, I would really appreciate it if   
   someone could pass on a copy to me. The first MSTing briefly reappeared on   
   Joseph Nebus's attempted WS#9    
   reboot circa 2009, but I foolishly didn't save it while I had the chance. The   
   MSTing is still visible if you view the site on the Wayback Machine, but the   
   link to my MSTing itself doesn't work.   
      
   I know this is a lot to just show up and ask for, but if anyone could help out   
   with any of this, it would be greatly appreciated!   
      
   Best,   
   Ramsey F   
      
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