Telecom Digest archives questions [TELECOM]

All,

I had a discussion tonight with Bill about our archives. As most of you are aware we have long maintained our own set of archives here:

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1981 when Sergey and Larry were doing whatever 8 year-olds did in 1981 and Google Groups did not exist. If we wanted an archive we had to do it ourselves. I can't speak for everyone, but going back and reading the old archives has been like a trip down memory lane. I remember when we had The Phone Company and would wait until 11 PM to call our grandparents to save on toll charges. Comparing 1981 to 2009 is really stunning.

A couple of years ago I made the archives available in mbox

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because I wanted them in that format to facilitate my walk down memory lane. Since I had already done the work, sharing it was the obvious next step.

Since that time Pat fell ill and since the exercise to put the digest in mbox was more of a rearview mirror and I didn't do it going forward. Here are our two questions:

  1. Should we continue to maintain our own archives or should we point people to
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  1. Is there any interest in making the current and future archives available in mbox?

I am going to defer question #1 to Bill. I have no strong opinions either way. On #2, as I told Bill, if even one person wants the archives available in the highly portable mbox format, I'm glad to do it.

John

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Posted 5 years ago by John Mayson in General Telecommunications Forum

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