I know, I was responding to “Let’s provide a tarball of emails for archival purposes (the Internet Archive has up to February 2009)”. A tarball sounds like a good idea, but I was confused by the mention of the Internet Archive when the official SL4 archive is still working fine.
My point there was that sl4.org will cost $8+ a year indefinitely (for the domain name alone), and my mental target is 2070; will Eliezer pay >$600 just to keep sl4.org going? Probably not. I’d guesssl4.org will be no more by 2030 at the latest. So it’s nice to know that there’s an existing backup already even if no one ever gets around to making a tarball dump of the website.
(I’ve learned to ask for busy people to do as little as possible; if I suggested a dump be made and only then SL4′s listserv shut down, I would guarantee that the proposal go nowhere.)
I’ve never suggested otherwise. A mailing list is not a website.
I know, I was responding to “Let’s provide a tarball of emails for archival purposes (the Internet Archive has up to February 2009)”. A tarball sounds like a good idea, but I was confused by the mention of the Internet Archive when the official SL4 archive is still working fine.
My point there was that sl4.org will cost $8+ a year indefinitely (for the domain name alone), and my mental target is 2070; will Eliezer pay >$600 just to keep sl4.org going? Probably not. I’d guess sl4.org will be no more by 2030 at the latest. So it’s nice to know that there’s an existing backup already even if no one ever gets around to making a tarball dump of the website.
(I’ve learned to ask for busy people to do as little as possible; if I suggested a dump be made and only then SL4′s listserv shut down, I would guarantee that the proposal go nowhere.)