[GOAL] The future of GOAL

[Richard Poynder]

Hi Thomas,

 

I don't think I can thread this message as GOAL has stopped distributing
posts to my email account. That is one of the problems: the list has started
to randomly discard subscribers!

 

With regard to archiving the two lists: Stevan Harnad archived the AmSci
list on Southampton's servers here
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/

And GOAL is archived on the Mail Archive here:
https://www.mail-archive.com/goal@eprints.org/

 

Stevan and I did try to combine the AMSCI archive with the GOAL archive on
the Mail Archive when I took the list over but there may be a gap. The AmSci
archive seems to start in 2000 on the Mail Archive site:
https://www.mail-archive.com/goal@eprints.org/msg01267.html.

 

It is possible that GOAL has also now stopped sending posts to the Mail
Archive. Currently the most recent one there seems to be dated last
September.

 

I have had a few private messages in response to my message about the future
of GOAL. I will wait to see if I hear more. 

 

Best wishes,

 

Richard

 

 

 

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.

 

-- 

 

  Cheers,

 

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

                                              skype:thomaskrichel

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