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<p>Not for nothing but the library community has it right: LOCKSS -
i.e., lots of copies, in lots of places!</p>
<p>Miles<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/23/19 4:26 PM, Richard Bennett
wrote:<br>
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History shows that the best way to preserve documents is to
register their copyrights. This insures they will be forever
accessible from Pirate Bay.
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<div class="">On Feb 23, 2019, at 1:42 PM, Jack Haverty <<a
href="mailto:jack@3kitty.org" class=""
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<div class="">On 2/23/19 10:12 AM, John Levine wrote:<br
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">Writing, editing, and
publishing journal articles is a<br class="">
lot of work, and not everyone can afford to do it for
free.<br class="">
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Writing, editing, and publishing thousands of RFCs and
IENs, and all of<br class="">
the material on the archives of forum sites like this,
is also a lot of<br class="">
work. People either do it for free, or as part of
whatever they are<br class="">
getting paid to do. Decades of such material are
freely available<br class="">
online in multiple repositories.<br class="">
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But "<a href="mailto:internet-history@postel.org"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">internet-history@postel.org</a>",
and others like it, even RFC<br class="">
repositories, likely exist at the whim of their
sponsor. The archives<br class="">
may just disappear someday when some contract expires.
Of course, even<br class="">
professional journals may disappear when their finances
dictate.<br class="">
<br class="">
So, ... perhaps the way to publish "a paper" for open
access by current<br class="">
and future historians is to make it an RFC...? Assuming
that is even<br class="">
permitted of course. But it seems contrary to the
traditional purpose<br class="">
of RFCs et al. The format constraints might also be an
obstacle.<br class="">
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Or, perhaps put it into Amazon with a very low price,
where it will be<br class="">
accessible electronically or even on paper by their
print-on-demand? <br class="">
Amazon seems to have longevity.<br class="">
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/Jack Haverty<br class="">
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<a href="http://hightechforum.org" class=""
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra</pre>
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