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Re: [LUG] Mailing List Archive - Needed?

 
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Dear folk,
20200625
Re: [LUG] Mailing List Archive - Needed?

ANSWER. YES!
1 For personal use, it is searchable for problems with many wise
answers. [Trusted source.]

2. For  historical reasons.
It is a very great asset.

Would you 'trash' the Transactions of the Royal Society, which are
likewise searchable (Physical mail  letters etc in person at HQ)
Journals on line and in print.

The development of any technology is an extremely valuable resource to
historians and to other technical enquiries.
It gives insight to matters of interest at that time.
[For example, the absolute non mention of Vitamin D, Masks ( reduce
spread per Hong Kong hamster experiments in January 2020) are the
searchable defects into government pronouncements.
They limited medics ONLY to advise from random double blind tests. Umn!
That does reduce the extreme quality of announcements and
recommendations. Early lock down (political decision); face covering
like Taiwan, Vitamin D supplement to darker skin would have helped.
Its the traceability of these records that allow future analysis.

PS I almost killed a dark skinned person because my team were used to
lighter skinned Gurkhas and white folks. We missed O2 starvation on one
 very dark skinned  person as his lips did not perceptibly darken on O2
scarcity. On investigation his Vitamin D was about only 20% of the
whites , and about 40% of the Gurkhas.

I have spent time researching old emails (in another context) to
establish use of machines and competence due to investigation into a
medical condition

PS the archive does not contain information other than an email address
used in correspondence { or  given names in some texts}. Any such
address once sent is the property of the recipient and on public forums
is public information.
(Not a GDPR problem.)

Kindest regards,
(Memories of potential court marshal for manslaughter still wake me up)
Eion MacDonald










On 25/06/2020 13:50, Alex Charrett wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> The LUG website hosts an archive of this very mailing list dating back
> 21 years (blimey!) http://www.dcglug.org.uk/archive/
> 
> In the world where people can request to be forgotten under GDPR this
> means that hosting this content involves being resonsible for dealing
> with such requests.
> 
> Does anyone get any value out of the mailing list archive?  Much of it
> is incredibly old now.
> 
> If not it may make sense to stop publishing mails and to remove the
> archive entirley.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex.
> 


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Eion MacDonald

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