Re: <nettime> Usenet archives sold?

["S. Kritikos" <metacode@yahoo.com>]

--- Ronda Hauben <ronda@ais.org> wrote:

> A different kind of entity than a business with bottom line
> objectives is needed to take up the responsibilities of 
> such an archives and to provide the research support that
> the archiving requires.

> This is a dilemma for the Usenet community and for the Internet
> community.

Folks, Ronda has the right idea here. I was wondering whether there are
any people here interested in exploring the idea of developing such an
organization or working with existing organizations in order to preserve
Internet archives?

Regards
S. (Sam) Kritikos


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