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On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 at 17:22, Aris Merchant via agora-business wrote: > > I petition the Herald to conduct peer review on my thesis. > > -Aris Ah, my bad, I totally missed it. Apologies.

Re: DIS: The Very Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen (Attn. Distributor)

omd wrote: Each mbox file is append-only, so you can use the "continue download" option of your favorite tool to sync without having to redownload the whole thing: wget -c https://agora:no...@mailman.agoranomic.org/archives/agora-business.mbox I just set up my home server to do this

Re: DIS: The Very Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen (Attn. Distributor)

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 3:50 PM James Cook wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 15:46, Timon Walshe-Grey via agora-discussion > wrote: > > Also relevant: CFJs 3411-3412. > > I was hesitent to raise this morbid concern, but now that the subject > has been broached, are dead former players persons?

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Falsifian wrote: > I was hesitent to raise this morbid concern, but now that the subject > has been broached, are dead former players persons? R869 would seem to > say no. This may affect the accuracy of Tailor reports. https://www.mail-archive.com/agora-discussion@agoranomic.org/msg45140.html

Re: DIS: The Very Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen (Attn. Distributor)

On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 23:18, omd via agora-discussion wrote: > I can at least put it through the formal proposal process, by > submitting a proposal expressing the sense of Agora that it's okay to > publish players' email addresses on the web. However, that only > accounts for current active

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On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 15:46, Timon Walshe-Grey via agora-discussion wrote: > Also relevant: CFJs 3411-3412. I was hesitent to raise this morbid concern, but now that the subject has been broached, are dead former players persons? R869 would seem to say no. This may affect the accuracy of Tailor

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On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 18:26, Timon Walshe-Grey via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > omd wrote: > > However, I vaguely remember having proposed this in the past, and > > someone objecting to it. But I can't find the thread; searching for > > "scrapers", only this

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omd wrote: > However, I vaguely remember having proposed this in the past, and > someone objecting to it. But I can't find the thread; searching for > "scrapers", only this thread comes up. I could be misremembering. Is this it?

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 12:47 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > Couldn't someone just zip the files and put them in a public GitHub > repo? If we really cared, the zip files could be encrypted and the > password could be put in the README, since I think most of the major > operating

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On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 17:48, omd via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 7:29 AM Matthew Berlin via agora-discussion > wrote: > > A custom Agora blockchain for the ruleset and BUS actions? I'd > > certainly be up for running a node...and could

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 7:29 AM Matthew Berlin via agora-discussion wrote: > A custom Agora blockchain for the ruleset and BUS actions? I'd > certainly be up for running a node...and could help with dev, I mean, Git is a blockchain. :)

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 12:47 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 1/28/20 2:14 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 12:03 AM omd via agora-discussion > > wrote: > > > >> I suppose I could mirror the archives on GitHub, which would be less > >>

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On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 15:47, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 1/28/20 2:14 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 12:03 AM omd via agora-discussion > > wrote: > > > >> I suppose I could mirror the archives on GitHub, which would be less > >>

Re: DIS: The Very Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen (Attn. Distributor)

On 1/28/20 2:14 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 12:03 AM omd via agora-discussion > wrote: > >> I suppose I could mirror the archives on GitHub, which would be less >> idiosyncratic and more resilient to me getting hit by a bus. That >> would, however,

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 12:03 AM omd via agora-discussion wrote: > I suppose I could mirror the archives on GitHub, which would be less > idiosyncratic and more resilient to me getting hit by a bus. That > would, however, imply giving up on obfuscating email addresses, unless > I made the repo

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Matthew Berlin wrote: > A custom Agora blockchain for the ruleset and BUS actions? It seems to me that an equally efficient, and somewhat lower-tech, solution would be for several different people to keep copies of the archives using the link omd provided upthread. Of course this doesn't protect

Re: DIS: The Very Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen (Attn. Distributor)

On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 21:59:44 -0800 Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > To the best of my knowledge, we have no contingency plans for > preserving Agoran history in such an eventuality. Our Distributor is > amazing, but sooner or later e will die, and that death may come > before e has

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On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:12 PM Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion wrote: > Speaking of which, last I checked, the link (at the top of the mailman > archive) to download the full archive is broken. Fixed. Seems like a Mailman bug introduced in this commit [1], which nobody has noticed in over

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*slaps head* Okay, that makes my prophecy quite a bit less terrifying, now doesn't it. I don't know how I never thought of that. I've been worrying about this for literally years. It goes back pretty far, though it's hard to tell how far (it only goes to 15 pages of results by date for each list,

Re: DIS: The Very Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen (Attn. Distributor)

Speaking of which, last I checked, the link (at the top of the mailman archive) to download the full archive is broken. In terms of your actual thesis, it’s worth mentioning that mail-archive.org would also have to go down (although I’m not sure how far it’s history