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[John Levine]

It appears that Joe Touch via Internet-history <touch at strayalpha.com> said:
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>> On Aug 27, 2025, at 6:23 PM, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> This is a gathering engine.  To my knowledge, there is nothing about its operation designed for long term retention. I've no doubt that there are basic backup reliability procedures, but
>those have nothing to do with long-term.
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>> I think this has been discussed here before.  I don't recall the resolution to it.
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>The resolution is that the list is the list. It is not a permanent archive.

FWIW, the list archives are here and the Internet Archive drops by to save a copy every month or so.
They go back to 2001.

https://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/internet-history/

>Very little is actually free. The best we could do is get ISOC to donate operation of this service. Anything beyond that would require monetization, which is not on the table. Related
>museums have been contacted and are not a available to support us.

Yeah.  I suspect I am not the only one who has little sympathy for the category of
"very important but not enough for me personally to put time or money into it."

R's,
John