I submit that it's better than the alternative of no archive at all. If you can think of solution that is likely to be implemented and has fewer faults, I'm all for it. On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, David Morris wrote: > > > 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. > > What a great way to help address harvesters ... one site ... one 'API' to > program against to harvest many valid addresses. This particular archive > example hides email addresses, but it took me less that 5 minutes to > determine how to recover addresses from the page data. > > So I don't think the suggested policy is a good idea without much more > effective blocking of access to email addresses. > > Dave Morris > > -- 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.<--