[svlug] Reminder: SVLUG mailing list server failure risk, gap in backups

Rick Moen rick at svlug.org
Wed Dec 31 00:43:37 PST 2014


Scott DuBois wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 03:44:56PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
>> Is there some way to have the subscriber rosters and the mailman
>> archives available via torrents? That might be a way to have backups
>> spread around, at least for data without privacy issues.
>
> Hmmmm,

> That's a very interesting idea. I'm going to have to think on that one
> a bit. 


While you're at it, can you do Kazaa, Gnutella, and eMule?[1] 

[1] This is parody.  If you don't get the joke, you may need to hire the
services of a professional comedian.  (No, I'm _not_ saying that BitTorrent 
lacks uses other than for warez:  Please put down that copy of rTorrent and
back away slowly.  What I _do_ think is that peer-filesharing setups are
overengineering for this problem space.)




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