On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 4:36 PM Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de> wrote:
> … but it certainly is another service that can change or go away > in a jiffie, and those who prefer to not be dependent on such > things do well to self-host. > A basically volunteer agency like OSI "self-hosts" when someone volunteers to host for them. When that volunteer loses interest, the "self-hosting" goes away. That's the way the Scheme community lost a bunch of servers and some important mailing list archives. We've gotten most of it back now, but it has taken a lot more effort by a lot more volunteers. The advantage to paying for things is that someone has an incentive to keep them running; of course, that requires a funding source. "The part-time help of wits is no better than the full-time help of half-wits." "Fail-safe systems fail by failing to fail safe." John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. --Gerald Holton
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