Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

Edward McNair emcnair at nanog.org
Tue Mar 23 08:43:46 UTC 2021


Discourse is completely open source. We could run our own instance, if we chose to. Currently, we opted for third party hosting, but we shift to self hosting at anytime. All data is ours, and could be backed up and self-hosted in a few hours. For our beta test we imported the entire mailing list archive. It’s currently a read-only mirror of the archive. Any new posts are synced to our read-only Discourse instance. 


Edward McNair
Executive Director

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> On Mar 22, 2021, at 4:39 PM, james.cutler at consultant.com wrote:
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> On Mar 22, 2021, at 6:01 PM, scott <surfer at mauigateway.com> wrote:
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>> One last thing before I stop.  How would the numerous NANOG archives work when everything is on Discourse?  The same?
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> Absolutely not! 
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> The archives on Discourse and the like, along with everything else, is subject to the marketing-driven application owner’s whims. One should not expect archives to be maintained indefinitely. And, when the vendor decides to save disk space, do not count on being informed of the decision before information goes to the bit bucket. 
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> NANOG threads from last century are still available and do not require a modern browser or, in fact, any browser.  
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> This is the genius of a group driven mailing list using basic RFC-compliant content and transport: The business purpose of the mailing list is set by the technical and social needs of NANOG and not by the financial wants of a particular vendor. What is the value of the NANOG list archive? If it is non-zero over time, do not make it dependent on the business practices of any but NANOG itself.
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