On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 3:13 PM, Yosem Companys <ycompa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Determine whether to maintain LT's mailing lists on Mailman or to transition > them to a content management system (e.g., Discourse.org).
And whenever such centralized systems shutdown, move on, deploy software again, crash, get bought, whatever, etc... Unlike mailing lists there is no publicly distributed exports of the database, no plaintext copies, nothing to import and read offline, little deep indexing, browser dependencies, etc... So all history, knowledge, and investment is lost forever. With some of these wonders even something as simple as searching for three letter words / acronyms doesn't work at all. Like Facebook, "forums" suck in general. If you had one that read and wrote its plaintext from / to list posts, that would be special. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing the moderator at zakwh...@stanford.edu.
