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Comment by jmathai | Hacker News Reader

It's a little bit crazy that all the responsibility of preserving this data resides with the Archive Team[1] and the Internet Archive[2].

[1] http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

[2] https://archive.org/web/web.php

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I just want to point out that anyone can help the Archive Team by running an "Archive Team Warrior". It's a virtual machine which scrapes things that need to be archived. Currently Posterous, Formspring, various URL shorteners and of course upcoming.org (in testing).

It's really easy to set up and I would encourage anyone remotely interested to give it a try. More info & download: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warri...

I ran one for Yahoo! Messages the other week and it was super simple. Really great work on these.

My Archive Warrior is still trying to get through all of posterous.com!

Internet Properties: Don't be a dick. If you're closing up shop, bundle the site up (public portion, not personal info), and ship it off to the Internet Archive.

I don't disagree with your suggestion, but when you're closing up shop, there's often a heck of a lot more pressing issues on your plate than wondering whether someone will be able to view your long-dead site after you've laid it to rest. Being a dick is a possible reason for not doing this, but there's a lot of others that don't require or imply malice.

That's still being a dick though.

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