Future of cctalk/cctech

[emanuel stiebler]

On 2020-06-19 23:42, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>>> Images take up a lot of space and are best dealt with via links.
> 
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>> Which rot over time.
>> If you're going to create a permanent archive, you need to archive any
>> attachments as well.
>> http://www.vcfed.org/forum is a perfect example of messages full of
>> link rot.
> 
> We need, or at least want, to handle BOTH.
> Long-term, "permanent" content, as well as
> the casual "What is this? here's what it looks like"
> 
> I have no idea whether it is practical to handle those the same, or
> differently.

Some mailing lists accept only attachments, if those are links into the
permanent storage at the mail server ...