Disks are cheap. 250Gig is under $400, and works just fine for slightly long term storage. --Dean On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote: > At 11:27 AM -0600 6/16/03, Vernon Schryver wrote: > >All contributions that are rejected > >by any moderators (including spam filters) of any IRTF or IETF mailing > >lists must be archived and should be published on web pages somewhere. > > FWIW, some of the IETF WG mailing lists that IMC runs get >10 spams a > day, and often get the virus/trojans that are >120K each. This is not > an insignificant amount of junk to wade through when looking for > proof of moderator badness/goodness. > > And there's also the problem of robots that harvest everything, > regardless of your robots.txt file. If we had a system like you > describe, it would be believable that the archives would get a fair > number of hits from people searching for pr0n but finding our archive > of spam instead. > > I think that having all bounces (for whatever reason) archived is > fine; I think having it as "web pages somewhere" is overkill. Access > to one of the big text archives can be a trivial password given to > anyone who wants it for research purposes. > > --Paul Hoffman, Director > --Internet Mail Consortium > >