Re: New home for list needed.
Greg, I also understand (and up to a point share) your concern about longevity. But in that case we need a willing institution and a willing postmaster to manage the list. Do we have them right now?
Also, please notice that for the last two universities that managed the list, we have been just a barely tolerated parasite on their mail managers. When the person in charge (Gordon, Avery) had to go, the list also had to go. Does it have to be that way always?
I think that we have a short term task, and a medium term task on hand. The short term is to save the list archives now in the U. of Sask., store them in one of the servers that have been kindly offered and assure the continuity of the list for the time being.
The medium term task is of course to find a more permanent site. Tom On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Greg Schmitz <gws1@columbia.edu> wrote: Tom, I understand your concern, but the institution that hosted this website for the last 10 or so years did so for free and Gord did the heavy lifting. Academic institutions are not perfect, but at least to my experience they have a longevity on The Internet that exceeds private and individual concerns. Based on experience, and there are a couple of folks on this list that know about private concerns that go *poof* I' think the list would be better served with an institutional address.
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