Re: <nettime> nettime: down & up and the need for long-term archiving

[nettime's mods <nettime@kein.org>]

Dear Nettimers,

First and foremost: many thanks to everyone for the offers and
suggestions, on- and off-list.

In retrospect, our description of our infrastructure as brittle was
overstated.

The issues isn't really technical. Over more than 25 years, nettime has
relied on extensive networks of trans-atlantic friendship, and they've
served the list amazingly well. For many years now, nettime-l has been
run by kein.org, while the server (nettime.org) for the archive and for
the other nettime lists (such as nettime-nl) have been run by
bitnik.org. We're very happy -- and grateful -- about this.

The reason we raise the archiving question has less to do with any
breakdown of technical infrastructure than with the fact that the value
of the list changes at some point, from a living engagement to something
more historical. The earlier model is sustained by day-to-day attention
and care, but this later model needs a more institutional kind of care.
But we should note that this isn't a synchronous process; for some, the
'nettime' project ceased to be interesting long ago, while for others
its currently of interest or they see it as in a lull and it could
become interesting again in the future.

So when we speak about looking for an archival solution, we're thinking
about something that has a reasonable chance of lasting, let's say
arbitrarily, 25 years past the last 'nettimer' stops caring.


All the best. Felix & Ted



On 05.03.20 08:43, nettime's mods wrote:
> Dear Nettimers,
> 
> Very few people have noticed that the list was down for more than a month.
> Indeed, even we didn't noticed this immediately. It's up again now, but...

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