Patrick Flowers wrote:
One other problem with "free" platforms. When the host can't figure out how to monetize the platform, it usually disappears. Remember Google Reader? One reason KRnet is with the current host - the previous host was a free service run out of a guys basement. He didn't even try charging for it and eventually gave up. The same may happen with EMWD eventually, but at least they have a revenue stream.
KRnet started out as a "usenet" group in the earlier days. I don't know that it was ever hosted in somebody's basement...you're probably thinking of the KR Gathering website, which Bob Lee ran before his untimely death. John Bouyea has taken that over and done a great job of keeping it alive.
KRnet is hosted by an ISP that runs the MailMan email software. That's a fairly standard email format, and even if it dies, the data is in a format from which email is easily extracted as plain text and presented in another app. When I moved it from the previous host to EMWD, I paid the previous host to send me a backup copy of all previous emails in the standard Mailman format, and those backups were added to the email archive. I think text-based email will be around for a long time, and between me and John Bouyea, we have backups covered.
KRnet list members who've been on the list for a long time have their own copies of KRnet email...sitting in their inbox or on their computers, and nobody can take it away from them...
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