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Re: [LUG] Mailing List Archive - Needed?

 

Agreed,  I would the archive to be kept too.

Paul


On 06/07/2020 09:11, Andy Wills wrote:
> Agreed, let's please keep this archive.
>> On 05 July 2020 at 17:43 Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 13:50, Alex Charrett < alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, so I'm a little late, and you've already had a very strong
>> response from others. 
>>
>>     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.
>>
>>
>> This is not, necessarily, a GDPR issue. 
>>
>>     Does anyone get any value out of the mailing list archive?  Much
>>     of it is
>>     incredibly old now.
>>
>>
>> What nobody seems to have pointed out yet is these archives are
>> incredibly search-engine friendly. Unless you're logging accesses,
>> you're not going to know just how many times someone has searched the
>> internet for an obscure, and often old, solution and found the answer
>> on dclug's archives. Much of my work involves doing just that, and the
>> number of times my salvation has been found in a mailman archive is
>> high. 
>>
>> Educating is what the lug is about. The archives are a very easy, low
>> cost and proven successful way to educate.
>>
>> I think you've already had an offer of helping to host if you wanted
>> to. It's something I can also assist/run on behalf of the lug (mailman
>> and archive) free of charge if required. I'm very happy for anyone
>> else to do it - but if there is a risk of it being lost, I would
>> gladly help.  (And take on any subsequent and legally submitted gdpr
>> removal requests, Of which I predict there would be about zero!)
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> S
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