[ih] Running long-term archives of this list?

[vinton cerf]

Carnegie-Mellon has an archive - check with Raj Reddy?

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On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 4:03 PM touch--- via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> I’ve looked into this before. The obvious choice would be the Computer
> History Museum, but they didn’t know what I was asking for the last time I
> tried them.
>
> Very few places actually run true museum-quality backups or storage of
> ANYTHING (libraries are the exception). Even university archives don’t -
> they don’t separate acid-free from not, etc. And nobody moves data from
> medium to medium as it evolves, i.e., so we can read things in the future
> without needing a non-existent 9-track tape drive.
>
> If anyone finds a solution that’d work for free, please do keep me posted.
> Until then, I figure we rely on the kindness of places like the Wayback
> Machine.
>
> Joe (list admin)
>
> —
> Dr. Joe Touch, temporal epistemologist
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>
> > On Feb 13, 2023, at 8:27 AM, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> > Reflecting, once again, on the  considerable depth and breadth of
> historical technical knowledge that is regularly demonstrated on this list,
> I'm wondering about how robustly is is archives and how easily the various
> archives can be accessed.
> >
> > Yes it's hosted by isoc, but I'm asking about long-term (museum-quality)
> data archival.  (We tend to think of back and archive as the same, but they
> aren't.)
> >
> > Also note I cited 'running' which means that even this message should
> hit those long-term archives pretty quickly.
> >
> > d/
> >
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