My vote is "Yea". My wife is a historian. She's finishing a book for which she spent many, many hours poking around in German archives, going through personal papers and court records from the 15th and 16th centuries. I have a soft spot for keeping things.
Should we use the doug(at)alphoto.com address for PayPal? Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Tue, 8/9/11, Doug Brewer <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Doug Brewer <[email protected]> > Subject: The Price of History Re: Archives only go back to April? > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, August 9, 2011, 2:08 PM > On 8/8/11 10:53 AM, Rick Womer > wrote: > > Doug, > > > > Once upon a time, not so very long ago, I reccall > there being two PDML archives, one of which went back into > the 1990s. Is the farther-back one now defunct? > > > > Rick > > Sorry I missed this, Rick. The mail-archive.com archive > dates back to when I took over the list, during the Winter > of 2000-2001. > > When we moved to the current host, in 2006, I didn't carry > over a local archive, since we were pretty well established > on mail-archive by then. There may be a little gap there > around that time, due to propagation and merging issues, but > it's pretty complete. > > This brings up something I'd like to ask The List about. > When in April we had to move to another server, our hosting > company realized we were occupying a largish amount of > server real estate, and told me it would cost an extra ten > bucks a month to continue to house the archives. > > At the time I told them to go ahead, but it's stayed in my > mind, given that the mail-archive space gets far more > traffic, so let's put it to a vote. Do we want to keep the > local archive, or not? Let me know here or off-list. > > Now would also be a good time to chunk a couple bucks > toward the PDML fund, if you'd like. It's certainly not > required, but will help offset some of the costs. > > Also, I don't think anyone cares one way or the other, but > yes, I'm still here. If you follow me on FB, you know I'm > about to disappear into the time-sink that is grad school, > but will continue to monitor. > > Carry on, then. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
