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Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?
From: Edward McNair <emcnair () nanog org>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 01:43:46 -0700
Discourse is completely open source. We could run our own instance, if we chose to. Currently, we opted for third party hosting, but we shift to self hosting at anytime. All data is ours, and could be backed up and self-hosted in a few hours. For our beta test we imported the entire mailing list archive. It’s currently a read-only mirror of the archive. Any new posts are synced to our read-only Discourse instance. Edward McNair Executive Director emcnair () nanog org | +1 866-902-1336 ext. 102 | www.nanog.org NANOG | 305 E. Eisenhower Pkwy, Suite 100 | Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
On Mar 22, 2021, at 4:39 PM, james.cutler () consultant com wrote: On Mar 22, 2021, at 6:01 PM, scott <surfer () mauigateway com> wrote:One last thing before I stop. How would the numerous NANOG archives work when everything is on Discourse? The same?Absolutely not! The archives on Discourse and the like, along with everything else, is subject to the marketing-driven application owner’s whims. One should not expect archives to be maintained indefinitely. And, when the vendor decides to save disk space, do not count on being informed of the decision before information goes to the bit bucket. NANOG threads from last century are still available and do not require a modern browser or, in fact, any browser. This is the genius of a group driven mailing list using basic RFC-compliant content and transport: The business purpose of the mailing list is set by the technical and social needs of NANOG and not by the financial wants of a particular vendor. What is the value of the NANOG list archive? If it is non-zero over time, do not make it dependent on the business practices of any but NANOG itself. James R. Cutler - james.cutler () consultant com GPG keys: hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net
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- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? Edward McNair (Mar 22)
- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? scott (Mar 22)
- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? scott (Mar 22)
- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? David Siegel (Mar 22)
- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? Grant Taylor via NANOG (Mar 22)
- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? Karl Auer (Mar 22)
- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? Edward McNair (Mar 22)
- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? james.cutler () consultant com (Mar 22)
- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? Jim Popovitch via NANOG (Mar 22)
- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? james.cutler () consultant com (Mar 22)
- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? Edward McNair (Mar 23)
- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? Alfie Pates (Mar 23)
- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? Mark Tinka (Mar 23)
- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? David Siegel (Mar 22)
- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? Jim Mercer (Mar 23)
- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? Karl Auer (Mar 22)
- Re: [External] Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? Hunter Fuller via NANOG (Mar 22)
- Re: Perhaps it's not time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? John Levine (Mar 20)
- Re: Perhaps it's not time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? Michael Hallgren (Mar 20)
- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? Joe Provo (Mar 20)
- Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? Jim Mercer (Mar 20)