Re: [LUG] Mailing List Archive - Needed?

[Michael Everitt <michael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At the risk of top-posting ..

Is it a problem for you to host, Alex? If so, I'm happy to take it over and
give it a freshen. One of my friends is running mailman3 without issue ... :D

Cheers,
Michael.

On 25/06/20 15:18, Paul Sutton wrote:
> I agree with Eion on this, so YES it is needed, it's a historical record
> of the lug,  has lots of useful information if you go back and search.
>
> The internet archive is already under attack from copy right holders,
> even though it is there to keep a historical record of websites not to
> breach copyright in that sense.
>
> There is probably enough information in that archive to keep a PhD
> student busy for years writing about the LUG and how it has helped so
> many people,. how technology has changed etc.
>
> Paul
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> On 25/06/2020 15:07, Eion MacDonald wrote:
>> To DCLug,Members,
>> Attention:  list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>  copy maceion (Gmail) <maceion@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Dear folk,
>> 20200625
>> Re: [LUG] Mailing List Archive - Needed?
>>
>> ANSWER. YES!
>> 1 For personal use, it is searchable for problems with many wise
>> answers. [Trusted source.]
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>> 2. For  historical reasons.
>> It is a very great asset.
>>
>> Would you 'trash' the Transactions of the Royal Society, which are
>> likewise searchable (Physical mail  letters etc in person at HQ)
>> Journals on line and in print.
>>
>> The development of any technology is an extremely valuable resource to
>> historians and to other technical enquiries.
>> It gives insight to matters of interest at that time.
>> [For example, the absolute non mention of Vitamin D, Masks ( reduce
>> spread per Hong Kong hamster experiments in January 2020) are the
>> searchable defects into government pronouncements.
>> They limited medics ONLY to advise from random double blind tests. Umn!
>> That does reduce the extreme quality of announcements and
>> recommendations. Early lock down (political decision); face covering
>> like Taiwan, Vitamin D supplement to darker skin would have helped.
>> Its the traceability of these records that allow future analysis.
>>
>> PS I almost killed a dark skinned person because my team were used to
>> lighter skinned Gurkhas and white folks. We missed O2 starvation on one
>>  very dark skinned  person as his lips did not perceptibly darken on O2
>> scarcity. On investigation his Vitamin D was about only 20% of the
>> whites , and about 40% of the Gurkhas.
>>
>> I have spent time researching old emails (in another context) to
>> establish use of machines and competence due to investigation into a
>> medical condition
>>
>> PS the archive does not contain information other than an email address
>> used in correspondence { or  given names in some texts}. Any such
>> address once sent is the property of the recipient and on public forums
>> is public information.
>> (Not a GDPR problem.)
>>
>> Kindest regards,
>> (Memories of potential court marshal for manslaughter still wake me up)
>> Eion MacDonald
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>> On 25/06/2020 13:50, Alex Charrett wrote:
>>> Hello everybody,
>>>
>>> The LUG website hosts an archive of this very mailing list dating back
>>> 21 years (blimey!) http://www.dcglug.org.uk/archive/
>>>
>>> In the world where people can request to be forgotten under GDPR this
>>> means that hosting this content involves being resonsible for dealing
>>> with such requests.
>>>
>>> Does anyone get any value out of the mailing list archive?  Much of it
>>> is incredibly old now.
>>>
>>> If not it may make sense to stop publishing mails and to remove the
>>> archive entirley.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex.
>>>
>>

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