Posterous

Posterous
URL	http://posterous.com
Status	Closing
Archiving status	In progress...
Archiving type	Unknown
IRC channel	#preposterus (on hackint)

Posterous is a blogging platform started in May 2008. It was acquired by Twitter on March 12, 2012 and will shut down April 30, 2013. Announcement

Site List Grab

We are currently assembling a list of Posterous sites that need grabbing. Development is seat-of-the-pants-y right now, and the following instructions will get your IP banned fairly quickly. Join us in #preposterous on efnet for state-of-the-art chitchat.

Instructions

Download the latest script: Pastebin

Save resulting file as 'smeg'

Claim a number range in the table below

Run 100 smegs concurrently. The following example will run the 1-2 million range:

   for chunk in $(seq 100 199); do ./smeg $chunk &; done

Range Claim

Range	User	Status
1 - 999,999	closure	Downloading
1,000,000 - 1,999,999	db48x	Downloading
2,000,000 - 2,999,999	(Your name here!)	Unallocated
3,000,000 - 3,999,999	closure	Done
4,000,000 - 4,999,999	(Your name here!)	Unallocated
5,000,000 - 5,999,999	Smiley	Attempting
6,000,000 - 6,999,999	(Your name here!)	Unallocated
7,000,000 - 7,999,999	balrog	Downloading
8,000,000 - 8,999,999	beardicus	Partial (38691)
9,000,000 - 9,999,999	GLaDOS	Downloading
10,000,000 - 10,999,999	omf	Partial (10,000,000 to 10,006,284 only)