Digital BW, The Print

John and Mark-

The real problem is not transferring the archive (though it would 
probably take some work on our part to convert them to the format of 
whatever system we moved to). 

The problem is that half our members access the list via email and 
half via the web. There really isn't a good alternative that does 
both. There are some excellent web based solutions we could join, but 
we would lose a large number of our best contributors. The closest 
thing to the Yahoo type setup would be the USENET setup on 
Google...it's functional but lacks a lot of features we all use.

The other alternative would be to invest in a server and software to 
run it ourselves...much more of a commmittment than any of us are 
prepared to undertake at this time. 

If anyone sees a list/forum platform that handles both email and web 
access, be sure to speak up, but I couldn't find one.

Tom O'Connell


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., John Labovitz <johnl@m...> 
wrote:
> On 2/23/02 2:09 PM, "marktuckerdotcom" <mark@m...> wrote:
> 
> > It would 
> > certainly be a drag to lose the archives, if we moved somewhere
> > else.
> 
> I don't think it's a given that we'd "lose" the archives.  I 
believe Martin
> Wesley said he has the full archives in another email format.
> 
> I've also been looking at writing some scripts that could extract 
all the
> current messages from the Yahoo group; at some later point, those 
messages
> could be made public again somewhere else.
> 
> I'm not sure whether this is necessary yet (Martin, do you 
definitely have
> the elm archives of the list?).  But I'm happy to help with any 
conversion
> should that be necessary.
> 
> john