IP: Article in Telepolis about the Usenet Archives

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:21:14 -0500 (EST)
>From: <ronda@panix.com>
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>Subject: Article in Telepolis about the Usenet Archives
>
>Dave
>
>I thought folks on your list would be interested in this
>article I recently had published in Telepolis.
>
>http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/7013/1.html
>
>It's about the recent sale of the Usenet Archives by Deja to Google,Inc
>
>The culture of the online community is based on fostering
>collaborative activity and online contributions.
>
>How does the technical and research community continue to foster
>the online contributions and collaboration? Is there any problem
>having such contributions bought and sold? Is there a
>way to have nonprofit or academic or research institutions involved
>in archiving such collaborative contributions like Usenet?
>
>These are some questions raised in the article and it would be
>good to see further discussion of them.
>
>J.C.R. Licklider in his earliest days at ARPA recognized the importance
>of fostering collaborative activity and contributions to a common
>pool of information and software, if there were to be progress in
>the development of computer technology.
>
>
>Best wishes
>
>Ronda
>http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/



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