[ih] Update on filtered list posts

[Dan Lynch]

Those tapes existed for a while, but I’m sure those 7 track tapes are long gone. 

As a check on whether they really were in existence when I took over the management at ISI in 1980 I put in a request to retrieve all the old email for Bob Kahn, who was the head of IPTO then and my real boss. It took a week or so but it happened and I asked Bob to peruse them to see if they were ok. Passed!  

But I’m sure all those tapes are in landfill somewhere. They were not classified, so no protection there. I know Vint has expressed worry/interest in this issue of digital archives. 

Dan

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> On Sep 15, 2020, at 3:52 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> Before going down the path to find an alternate route for these
> discussions to reach History, maybe Joe can describe what the ISOC's
> position is on this kind of content they host (or other stuff for that
> matter).
> 
> E.g., will this list be archived "forever"?   Will the contents always
> be free for future people to search/access?  What will happen if/when
> the ISOC disappears, e.g. do they have some arrangement for the future
> with some other organization?
> 
> My sense of deja vu reminds me of the early days (40+ years ago) when
> many mailing lists and archives were maintained on USC-ISIA on the
> ARPANET.  There were lots of great debates and discussions on forums
> like HEADER-PEOPLE, TCP-IP-WG, and many others that held a lot of History. 
> 
> But when ISIA disappeared, the archives seem to have gone with it.  Like
> much other now-historical material - even the "important" messages I put
> into the Datacomputer for longevity.
> 
> Unless there's some ancient boxes of tapes in Dan's basement...
> 
> /Jack
> 
> 
>> On 9/15/20 3:05 PM, Grant Taylor via Internet-history wrote:
>>> On 9/15/20 3:08 PM, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via
>>> Internet-history wrote:
>>> Relocating IH list hosting and archive alternative venue to Google
>>> Groups?
>> 
>> Google has shown that they can't be counted on for things, especially
>> free things, to be around for a long time.  The list of things that
>> they've discontinued is longer than I can remember.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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