On 14 October 2011 02:56, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Carcharoth <[email protected]> > wrote:
>> Or even the archives of the WMF mailing lists. > Yes. WMF is corporatizing, and that inherently means stuff will > survive longer than personal fly-by-night blogs. If nothing else, > those mailing list and blogs are relatively small - Google Groups and > Usenet is *huge*. If the Archive Team had to rescue those, I doubt > they would be able to retrieve any but a small fraction even with a > long lead time. Every now and then something in the mail archive craps itself. Mailman can regenerate it, but all the old URLs break. Since they're excluded from Google, and the ht://dig search was so crap it was removed, gmane or gossamer-threads are more stable archives than WMF's own. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
