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Jason Scott from the Internet Archive commented on Lars' blog post, offering to maintain the archive up at the same domain gmane.org https://lars.ingebrigtsen.n
by gghh 10y ago
Jason Scott from the Internet Archive commented on Lars' blog post, offering to maintain the archive up at the same domain gmane.org https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/comment-page-1/#comment-13501 https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/com...
This is undoubtedly good news, and prove once more what fundamental role the Archive has on the internet. I personally hope they will not only keep the content up, but will continue Lars' work on actively running Gmane.
The Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and lives out of donations. https://archive.org/about/ https://archive.org/about/
- jorams 10y agoWhile I agree with your sentiment, that's not what that comment says at all. It's about getting a copy of the data into the Internet Archive, regardless of what happens to gmane.org itself.
- gghh 10y agoRight. I somehow mixed up my own wishes with what Jason Scott's comment actually says. Moreover, in the comment after that Lars writes the sentence "I hand over the gmane.org domain to you". I mistakenly took that for a reply to Jason, and understood that "you" was Jason and the Archive -- nope, Lars was saying "here’s what I hope somebody could make happen", and "you" is still undefined at this moment. So the future is uncertain.
- cag_ii 10y agoThough Jason Scott's post seems more about archiving, @FiloSottile has made a post about offering to host the front-end going forward: https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/758979930453520384 https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/758979930453520384 I really hope it's an open-source/community project.