Alex Kaufman, of Mailwarrior fame, vanished from the net.

I was curious; this wasn’t particularly thorough.

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• kaufmansoft.com/Index.htm as of 2001-08-03
• www.kaufmansoft.com/Index.htm as of 2002-12-09
• archive.li does not have it archived

• Reddit: MailWarrior: What happened to Alex Kaufman?

(untried) – Via email ∞

About Alex notes kaufman at videotron.ca

https://videotron.com/ still existed for a while.

(untried) – Via his college ∞

About Alex notes that he went to Vanier College [ 1 ] in Canada.

• 514-744-7500

  • As of 2020-06-07 that number has not changed: https://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/contact [ 2 ]

(untried) via his domain information ∞

TODO

(dead end) – Via the forum ∞

• Home page notes Discussion Board which was excluded from The Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

(dead end) – Via his mailing list ∞

Mailing list was ListBot

• Looking at the source code of that page, and the email address of Kaufman_Discussions at listbot.com, the mailing list name was Kaufman_Discussions
• I see no way to view archives via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, and some cursory web searches did not find archives.
• That archive reports that listbot.com was going to be shut down 2001-07-20.

• The ListBot shutdown FAQ says that 2001-08-20 was the last day to retrieve ListBot data. This was a free service, but I don’t believe the data was ever made public (as with a public directory of users and a web-accessible list of back-issues of emails)

(untried) – Via his website’s designer ∞

Want to really try? Maybe his original designer was a friend or otherwise knows something?

The website credits notes Ilja J. Sillman (faust)

• Name: Ilja J. Sillman
• Online alias: faust
• Website URL: was surf.to/faust
• E-Mail: isillman at pplmail.com

• ICQ #: 16455169

http://surf.to/faust redirected to netti.nic.fi/%7Eisillman/ (archive) which in turn redirected to https://www.iljasillman.fi/

• info at iljasillman.fi
• https://www.facebook.com/ilja.sillman [ 3 ]
• https://bandcamp.com/diamondsine

• www.linkedin.com/in/iljasillman/ (requires login)

  • He is still active as of 2025-01

Other ∞

kmx2mbox mentions:

• a fan site/cache

• Claims http://pages.infinit.net:80/kaufman/Index.htm is a new site.

Footnotes

1. The original link would have been this date [ ↩ ]
2. was https://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/contact-vanier/ [ ↩ ]
3. archive [ ↩ ]