12 Sep
2017
12 Sep
'17
1:01 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 3:58 AM, Brian Kantor <Brian(a)ucsd.edu> wrote:
Thank you for the vote of confidence, but although
I've been
managing the network since the late 80's, I've only been handling
the mailing list since late 2012 when it was moved here from
cows.net. It was a mailing list on cows.net, but when it was
moved to UCSD, the cows.net archives didn't come with it. So
UCSD's archives currently only go back to 2012.
Yes, Brian is doing a great job. However, if we used groups.io, there
could be redundant support staff (e.g. administrators and moderators).
Should Brian get a better offer -- there would be people who could take
over and not miss a heartbeat.
I had completely forgotten cows.net!
There are multiple was to handle the archives:
1. Put them on a website that google indexes and people can find the old
postings that way.
2. Approach groups.io and see if we can find a way to bulk load them.
3. Write a script to individually submit them to the message board.
4. ....
That is, of course, if we did groups.io
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