Russ, I think the archives and the domain name are both
important. I'm wondering if it might make sense to have CASDW host
the archive (and also claim the domain name as a subgroup--sort of
the way that CCCC is a subgroup of NCTE), if McGill was okay with
that (it seems a natural connection to me, since so many people in
CASDW started with Inkshed).
Those past newsletters are really useful--I send students to various
of those articles online all the time. I use them myself.
Can you clarify for me if the archive is safe at UNB? You said that
"The existing Inkshed Web site, with its archive of back issues of
the Newsletter, will probably stay up indefinitely at STU"--but you
also suggested that the listserv might be eliminated soon and that
"The only way I know to preserve the archive, though, is to preserve
the listserv." If the archive is in danger, we need to do something
to preserve the inkshed website and past issues of the newsletter, in my view.
Best, Betsy
At 08:27 AM 4/23/2010, you wrote:
>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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