Re: CHAT: facing your own mortality (as a conlanger)

Thanks for all the responses in this thread. Very thought-provoking.

Amanda, I never realized people are into lace-making. I googled a
little after reading your message and learned some new stuff.

Roger Mills wrote:
> I assume that free webpages (like mine on Tripod) stay around as
> long as the host remains in business, but what happens when
> they merge with Yahoo or someone?
I think some of those sites delete pages when they have not been
updated in a long time. At least that's the impression I get from the
huge number of dead links I encounter on them.

Sai, it looks like there is unanimous support for the idea of LCS
providing an archiving service. Even I cannot think of an objection.
It would be nice if the archive could be mirrored on the other side
of the world, for redundancy purposes; or maybe you could sell
DVD-ROMs of the data as a way to raise funds and create a widely
distributed backup.

Henrik Theiling wrote:
> One of my ideas always was to produce something very, very
> durable and hide it somewhere (so no idiot will destroy it too
> soon), in the hope that future archologists will find it. :-)
Inscribing text on thin sheets of gold might work. It is immune to
corrosion. But if it were discovered by an idiot they would melt it
and sell it.

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