Re: New home for list needed.
BTW, garbing the archives is not that big a deal - and anybody with even
a modicum of drive space (by todays standards) can do it provided they
have the bandwidth and the time. That said, I have, I think a complete
archive of the list in a folder I call alt-photo which is nothing but
saved messages. Some of the very early archives came from me when
Steve Avery had problems with the listserve and lost the posts - and
yeh, I still have the .zip files.
--greg
Greg Schmitz wrote:
Yes, but... Even with commercial hosts like Google and Yahoo somebody
has to moderate - that is the nature of the beast. Short of going to
a web based "chat" format, which I think would destroy the list, we
are stuck with that reality. I think things are in the works and I
have my fingers crossed.
Best --greg
Tomas Sobota wrote:
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
<mailto: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.
--greg
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