[Biopython] suggestion: moving to the discussion list to Google groups

Chris Fields cjfields at illinois.edu
Wed Dec 16 19:05:46 UTC 2009


On Dec 16, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Istvan Albert wrote:

> 2009/12/16 Tiago Antão <tiagoantao at gmail.com>:
> 
>> If google turns bad, we loose a lot of history as google groups
>> is not inherently distributed and thus neither resilient
> 
> No, on a second thought it actually is.
> 
> Sign up to the group such that is sends an email for every single
> message (if you wish so). Google goes under, go back to the site the
> way it is right now.
> 
> Istvan

...and in the meantime we lose any content only present on the google group list.  Whereas if the group is a mirror of this list, then nothing is lost.

chris



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