I am always leary about business models that I don't understand how they make money. So tell me, how will mail-archive.com make money to guarantee that it will be around in 2050, 2100, and beyond. I am not all that interested in a mail archive that might exist for a few months, or a year, frankly I prefer the mail archives that the IETF provides for my list, if the IETF goes out of business, then I don't think the archives of the IETF will be all that interesting anymore Bill On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote: > 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.<-- > >