Irving Buchbinder wrote:
> A thought about storage for Minoru or upcomming back storage needs:
>
> I can't speak for each project, however, the FreeMED Software Foundation
> would be willing to MIRROR such archives, indeed host that sort of activity.
> I'm sure we can find groups/Open Source works who will also be willing to
> put forward some server/disk time to keep the list operational.
Horst herb has also indicated his willingness to host mail archives on
his servers. Adhering to the LOCKSS (lots of copies keeps stuff safe)
principle, I see no objection to there being online multiple archives.
Although there is a lot of embarrassing disputation in the openhealth
archives, there is also a great deal of high quality and interesting
discussion of both technical and sociopolitical matters.
The key matter is to sanitise the email addresses so as to render the
archives less of a magnet for spam address harvesters. It's too later
for such concerns with respect to my email addresses - I get an
avalanche of spam, and rely on spam filters (which work well enough that
I hardly bothered by it). However, I can appreciate why others might not
want their email addresses easily harvestable in the archive.
Transforming email addresses is rather easy - a simple regular
expression with find them. The question is, should they be removed
entirely or just changed to something like "tim [dot] churches {at}
gmail [dot] com"? If they are removed entirely, many messages will then
be rendered effectively anonymous in the archive, because not everyone's
email client supplies a name when sending mail.
The popular MHonArc mail archiving programme has options for email
address obfuscation built-in, I think - http://www.mhonarc.org/
> Although I monitor the lists regularly, I'm not a big contributor. I've many
> times thanked Brian for his efforts when FreeMED was still a fledgling
> project, helping us to get our wings.
Yes. Brian, what is involved in packaging up the openhealth mail
archives and sending them to a one or more alternative archive hosts?
Can a compressed tarball be made easily?
> Please let us/me know what we can do to make this happen. I've never been a
> fan of Yahoo mailing because of its twitchy policies regarding back storage
> and such. Its not at ALL open source nor does its corporate nature seem
> disposed in that way.
Yes, if the current list is to remain on Yahoo, there is a good case for
setting up an independent searchable archive of it. Am I correct in
thinking that you need to actually sign in to Yahoo to be able to search
and browse the archives of the *current* openhealth mailing list? If so,
that is, I think, unfortunate and some form of openly accessible mirror
archive needs to be established.
Tim C
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