CMU requested the hostmasters to remove the pictures because many of them were copyrighted and there was no age-restriction to the FTP site. The archive had to end public access to the site in April 1993 because Chris, his postmaster and also his boss received harassing email about the FTP-site. In March of that year they started the task of categorizing and merging of all uploaded stories. In 1993 the current webmaster David approached the initiator Chris and offered his help and support. The Nifty Archive started as a personal archive of both stories and pictures made available to the public via anonymous FTP at CMU by a student who became later a staff-member.
