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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I agree 100% with John Camp. Not now being in my
youth, I too am wondering what to do with my historical records, both manual and
on data bases.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan Buswell</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, December 10, 2006 3:17
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] An IT ringing
trust? [was Musical scales, bell register]</DIV>
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<P>At 12:22 on 05 December 2006, Mike Chester wrote:<BR><BR>> A quick look
at the amount of updating work John Baldwin has to do<BR>> at the moment
would show just how much time he has to spend on Dove<BR>> as it
is.<BR><BR>I think there is a wider problem here. There are numerous
individuals<BR>(and I use the word advisedly) who devote time and often money
to<BR>maintaining databases, websites, email lists, and other
manifestations<BR>of information technology for the benefit of ringers in
general. I<BR>imagine that all of them do it because they enjoy it and because
it is<BR>part of their contribution to ringing.<BR><BR>But what happens when
someone becomes unable to carry on or drops<BR>dead? Perhaps arrangements have
been made for someone else to take<BR>over, perhaps not. There may or may not
be someone else who knows how<BR>the set-up works.<BR><BR>Could there, I
wonder, be a small group of people with the requisite<BR>skills with whom
individuals could register the details of their own<BR>particular internet
presence, including such things as passwords,<BR>hosting arrangements,
payments made and so on? This would include some<BR>information about how the
application in question functioned, in<BR>practical terms. I am thinking only
in terms of IT applications which<BR>are provided by one person for use by
other ringers.<BR><BR>This group of 'trustees' would be low-key, but would be
able to step<BR>in if the individual for some reason became unable to carry on
and at<BR>least keep things ticking over until other arrangements were made.
It<BR>would also be able to inform ISPs, hosting providers and
other<BR>relevant people about the existence of such a problem. It
would<BR>probably need to be modestly funded in some way.<BR><BR>This may not
be the right list to bring up this matter, but historians<BR>are concerned
with maintaining records and continuity of information.<BR>Any
thoughts?<BR><BR>John
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