A few years ago I registered inkshed.ca as a domain name. I've never
done much with it -- all it does is to bounce browsers to
http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ -- but the registration is about to
expire. I don't see any point in my renewing it, but I thought I'd
post the possibility on CASLL of someone else taking it over, in case
anyone has plans for it. There's a week before it expires and becomes
publicly available -- I suppose the easy way to claim it if you want
it would be to wait till it's free and register it. Of if you want it
and think someone's crouched and ready to pounce, let me know and
we'll arrange a transfer.
The existing Inkshed Web site, with its archive of back issues of the
Newsletter, will probably stay up indefinitely at STU, but if someone
has a better idea about preserving it it would be movable.
In a similar issue, I've been finding it more and more difficult to
maintain the CASLL listserv. It's on the UNB server, and UNB doesn't
like to have listowners who aren't on the UNB system. (I'm having a
similar issue with the STLHE-L list, which is much bigger and more
active.) My guess is that in May they'll ask me to find someone with
a UNB account to act as listowner of record.
There's only been one message on CASLL since the flurry about Inkshed
2010 toward the end of February, so it seems to me it's not serving
much function -- except that some people might think the CASLL
archive worth preserving. It goes back to January of 1995, and there
might be historical interest in some of the discussions. The only way
I know to preserve the archive, though, is to preserve the listserv.
That could be done by moving the whole works to another university
server running LISTSERV and willing to host it, but I've been trying
to set that up with STLHE-L, and finding it pretty complicated.
Anybody have any ideas?
-- Russ
Russ Hunt
Department of English
St. Thomas University
http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/
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