Well I personally wouldn't have found out about this effort if not for this post of yours, so you certainly deserve some fraction of the credit in my book :)
(I have everything up and running according to your short guide and am working on the posterous project, though my contribution will probably limited to under 100GB due to bandwidth cap considerations. Btw, how much disk space does posterous in its entirety take?)
I can assure you that you will not use up very much space nor bandwidth :-) It's mostly text and all. Feel free to stop by the project IRC Channel which is #preposterus on EFNet for specific questions (if they aren't answered in the FAQ or HN thread already)
jacquesm's a member of the ArchiveTeam now by the way ;-) And so are you, since you're helpin'!
Archiving content is one thing but to able to use it again is another.
We are helping users move to tumblr & save their blog. So far moved 500000+ posts (mostly small blogs). But we are not able to help all the users who have multiple images and videos in a post. Currently we support only single image & audio posts. If we can find a way to host their files separately on S3 permanently, then the move would be effortless & many would thank.
There are so many users who don't understand what to do with their backup, for them moving to wordpress is too complex task.
I have reached out to Sachin aggarwal, but yet to hear a positive reply. Tumblr also rejected to host the files of Posterous blogs.
We are ready to collaborate with anyone who can host users file permanently, if needed users can pay directly to you. We were also considering dropbox for hosting files. Moving to new blog platform is a pain and we wanted to minimize as much as possible.
Got all the answers I need here (though I might drop by the channel to say hi). It's actually quite funny to see the traffic graph spike as it makes a successful connection, then lulls for a while as certain pages keep giving 502 responses. I definitely see why you guys need IPs more than bandwidth!
(I have everything up and running according to your short guide and am working on the posterous project, though my contribution will probably limited to under 100GB due to bandwidth cap considerations. Btw, how much disk space does posterous in its entirety take?)