more or less [OT]: A new standard for lists?

As some of you may know, Yahoo is flopping. And much of the lists of the world are on yahoo servers. This is a talk I had on HP Equimpent list, that MAY bring nice ideas to some of you. I think is a smart idea that could be implemented (unfortunately I know nothing about C programming, so I cannot bring it to light alone) and it would be good, so here it is. I'm sorry for the little offtopic, but if you think well you will understand that it MAY be a nice standard to the future of all lists, incluiding this one. ---8<---Cut here---8<--- You're realizing how stupid is one of the latest buzzwords - "cloud computing" - is, and how dangerous is to have your data not in your domains (and backed-up well). I still think these lists should run in private servers. Everyone though of Yahoo as a reliable company, that "would just never dies". This is another nail on the coffin. Everything can happen - AND HAPPENS - with a company like yahoo. I still think of a distribuited mailist system. Imagine: - servers scattered around the world, with copies of the list(s) - It would distribute the mail to the nearest list members - Servers could automatically enter or exit the network. When it entered the network, it would rsync all containt and take a "slice" of the members to distribute the messages. Every server would ping all the net from time to time. 12 hours out the net? It would be marked as "missing" and other server (or servers) would share the load and redistribute the messages to the affected list members It would take a global thermonuclear war to kill everything. And it would be difficult to happen. Working this way, any dude could have a "reflector" of the list traffic. Since we're talking plain text here, the packet sharing between the "reflectors" would be light and easy on the networks. Any user could say "I can share content here" and have a machine dedicated to help. Also, full plaintext of lists would be easier to extract and distribute. And of course, backup :) Developers, think about that. Maybe a new list standard could born from this talk. Greetings from Brazil Alexandre Souza, PU1BZZ --- Enviado do meu Motorola PT550