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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Thomas,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>With regard to archiving the two lists: Stevan Harnad archived the AmSci list on Southampton's servers here <a href="https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/">https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>And GOAL is archived on the Mail Archive here: <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/goal@eprints.org/">https://www.mail-archive.com/goal@eprints.org/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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: <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/goal@eprints.org/msg01267.html">https://www.mail-archive.com/goal@eprints.org/msg01267.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Richard<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Richard Poynder writes<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Since then (just before Christmas) the list suffered a technical problem<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> that has yet to be fixed and I am told by ECS that they are no longer able<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> to support GOAL<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> The problem is that Mailman2 is no longer being developed, and its<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> users need to upgrade to Mailman3. This is not a completely automated<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> task. I have the task set ahead for the mailman installation that<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> I have but I keep on postponing it. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> - so it is not clear it will ever be fixed. It has been<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> suggested that I look for another venue - e.g., Jisc, which runs a mailing<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> list service. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Maybe but the problem is the migration of the archival contents of<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> GOAL, and of its predecessor list (AmSci or so list) I was under the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> impression that the archives from these lists were migrated at the time,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> but I could be wrong. The archived contents will be very valuable in the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> longer run for historians of scholarly communcation. I could host<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> the archive as static files but I will need to be given access to<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> copy them.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> skype:thomaskrichel<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>