On 24 February 2010 11:36, Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk wrote:
The list of subscribers is *not* the same as the list of people that have posted... We have some long time lurkers (I'm sure). So, using a scan through the archive would be a very bad way of deducing the subscriber list. Also, many addresses in there may no longer exist (e.g. iDunno@sommitrealweird.fsnet.co.uk - my address before I got a real domain name... when I was using freeserve dialup).
This is my point. Although people are saying we have a list archive and many people have been long time list members who have everyones email address in emails they have received from the list over time; we need a list admin to make an actual backup of the list subscribers and any settings so that it can be backed up off of the server.
On 24 February 2010 12:10, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk wrote:
Hmmm ... from: http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main
main list run by mail at johnwoodard.co.uk, adam at thebowery.co.uk, page.rob at gmail.com
So surely at least one of these woould be willing and able to login to the admin page, visit the list of subscribers, and extract it for future use?
Or am I missing something? Ted.
Thats what I would hope for. Like my backups of the wiki data, I offer my VPS as a place to also backup the list data. Brett I am guessing will probably make the same offer? Others would also be great.