On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:02:32 -0400 Rich Kulawiec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But the utility of having a single search interface and a > competently-maintained archive of mailing lists, with the decision on > inclusion delegated to the owners of mailing lists, would be large. The second order costs of SPOF, let alone single points of control and concentrated target effects are massive, and to my mind, far exceed any possible gain from such a concentration. > However, lack of a single site with a unified search interface > ... need to be addressed. Suffice to say that I strongly if not violently disagree. Consider: VA Software, nee VA Linux, nee VA Research is entering deep financial trouble. They are a medium order acquisition target (would be more so if their gross value were not dominated by community good will). The costs of running SourceForge.Net are large (see their financial reports and do some between-the-line reading). If/when VA folds or pulls most/all the support for SF the cumulative effect on the hosted projects and mailing lists will not be small. This is not to say that Google will fold, but it is to note that Google is not immortal or immune to external forces. > In the interim, all of my mailing lists include: > X-No-Archive: yes I should probably note that I configure my systems, and my archiving setups in particular to ignore the X-No-Archive header. I'm no fan of rewriting history, popular tho others may find it. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
