IP: Article in Telepolis about the Usenet Archives

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:21:14 -0500 (EST)
> From: <ronda () panix com>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> Subject: Article in Telepolis about the Usenet Archives
>
> Dave
>
> I thought folks on your list would be interested in this
> article I recently had published in Telepolis.
>
> http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/7013/1.html
>
> It's about the recent sale of the Usenet Archives by Deja to Google,Inc
>
> The culture of the online community is based on fostering
> collaborative activity and online contributions.
>
> How does the technical and research community continue to foster
> the online contributions and collaboration? Is there any problem
> having such contributions bought and sold? Is there a
> way to have nonprofit or academic or research institutions involved
> in archiving such collaborative contributions like Usenet?
>
> These are some questions raised in the article and it would be
> good to see further discussion of them.
>
> J.C.R. Licklider in his earliest days at ARPA recognized the importance
> of fostering collaborative activity and contributions to a common
> pool of information and software, if there were to be progress in
> the development of computer technology.
>
>
> Best wishes
>
> Ronda
> http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/



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