Discourse is completely open source. We could run our own instance, if we chose to. Currently, we opted for third party hosting, but we shift to self hosting at anytime. All data is ours, and could be backed up and self-hosted in a few hours. For our beta test we imported the entire mailing list archive. It’s currently a read-only mirror of the archive. Any new posts are synced to our read-only Discourse instance.
Edward McNair Executive Director emcn...@nanog.org | +1 866-902-1336 ext. 102 | www.nanog.org NANOG | 305 E. Eisenhower Pkwy, Suite 100 | Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA > On Mar 22, 2021, at 4:39 PM, james.cut...@consultant.com wrote: > > On Mar 22, 2021, at 6:01 PM, scott <sur...@mauigateway.com> wrote: >> >> One last thing before I stop. How would the numerous NANOG archives work >> when everything is on Discourse? The same? > > Absolutely not! > > The archives on Discourse and the like, along with everything else, is > subject to the marketing-driven application owner’s whims. One should not > expect archives to be maintained indefinitely. And, when the vendor decides > to save disk space, do not count on being informed of the decision before > information goes to the bit bucket. > > NANOG threads from last century are still available and do not require a > modern browser or, in fact, any browser. > > This is the genius of a group driven mailing list using basic RFC-compliant > content and transport: The business purpose of the mailing list is set by the > technical and social needs of NANOG and not by the financial wants of a > particular vendor. What is the value of the NANOG list archive? If it is > non-zero over time, do not make it dependent on the business practices of any > but NANOG itself. > > James R. Cutler - james.cut...@consultant.com > GPG keys: hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net > > > > > > > > > > > >
