My understanding is that The Mail Archive (http://www.mail-archive.com/lists.html) will provide free storage for mailing lists. I think every WG list should be permanetly archived in this manner. On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Dean Anderson wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > -- Please visit http://www.icannwatch.org A. Michael Froomkin | Professor of Law | froomkin@law.tm U. Miami School of Law, P.O. Box 248087, Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA +1 (305) 284-4285 | +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) | http://www.law.tm -->It's hot here.<--