[GOAL] The future of GOAL

[Thomas Krichel]

  Richard Poynder writes

> Since then (just before Christmas) the list suffered a technical problem
> that has yet to be fixed and I am told by ECS that they are no longer able
> to support GOAL

  The problem is that Mailman2 is no longer being developed, and its
  users need to upgrade to Mailman3. This is not a completely automated
  task. I have the task set ahead for the mailman installation that
  I have but I keep on postponing it. 

> - so it is not clear it will ever be fixed. It has been
> suggested that I look for another venue - e.g., Jisc, which runs a mailing
> list service. 

  Maybe but the problem is the migration of the archival contents of
  GOAL, and of its predecessor list (AmSci or so list) I was under the
  impression that the archives from these lists were migrated at the time,
  but I could be wrong. The archived contents will be very valuable in the
  longer run for historians of scholarly communcation. I could host
  the archive as static files but I will need to be given access to
  copy them.

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  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                                              skype:thomaskrichel