[Coco] princeton listserver status?

[Bob Devries]

Hi John,

What you say may be true about the traffic and lack of sponsorship, but the 
listserv at princeton still shows the coco as a valid mailing list, and 
allows one to subscribe to it.

Having said that, I haven't seen any responses from my email to it.

Regards, Bob Devries

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.net>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] princeton listserver status?


> Bob Devries wrote:
>> Does anyone know if the listserver at Princeton is still alive?
>
> I posted something with a little more precise a few years ago, and this is 
> from memory.  My original post had web links for reference.
>
> The listserver is probably alive.
>
> The COCO list is no longer active per Princeton's publicly posted policy.
>
> That policy requires that all active lists have a Princeton faculty or 
> student sponsor.  Sometime after the wide open mailing list got overrun 
> with spam, someone at Princeton noticed that the COCO list did not have a 
> sponsor and turned it off.
>
> The mailing list part of bitnet, which has many Universities as members, 
> and there appears to be some way that one of them could pick up the list 
> if they desired.
>
> The newsgroup mirror of the mailing list appeared to be working as a 
> newsgroup only.  I stopped looking a while back.
>
> The newsgroup is chartered as an official mirror of the mailing list, and 
> since the mailing list is no more, it is possible that the operators of 
> the bitnet news server could discontinue the news group at any time.
>
> As near as I can tell, there is precedence for moving a mailing list off 
> of bitnet to a different set of hosts and maintaining the bitnet news 
> servers.
>
> That would involve coordinating both with Princeton, which is still the 
> official owner of the suspended list, and then with the owner of the 
> bitnet news server.
>
> Bitnet is not usenet, so the normal procedures for changing usenet 
> newsgroups does not apply.
>
> -John
> wb8tyw(at)qsl.network
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>
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