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

[Steve Litt]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:43:37 -0800
Rick Moen <rick at svlug.org> wrote:

> 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.)

Yes. If I'd thought it out a bit more carefully, I'd have realized
torrents are helpful when there are a hundred people an hour
trying to download the same big file, sucking the server's resources
dry. That isn't the situation here. 

And yes, I'll need to hire a professional comedian.

SteveT

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