Mailing list archives? Questions...

From: Aaron Christopher Finney <af-list_at_wfi-inc.com>
Date: Sun Apr 2 15:32:03 2000

Hi all,

I know that Kevan posted that he's working on getting his archives back
up, but a question in the meantime...

I've been thinking of making a new archive of the list available at
retrobytes.org (starting with this month); any comments/concerns/advice?

Do I have to get anyone's explicit permission to do this?

Lastly, assuming I go through with this, would people prefer that I set
Mhonarc to obfuscate everyone's email addresses? The benefit, of course,
is that a spammer's address crawler couldn't pick up everyone's addresses
from the page like they do on newsgroups; the drawback is that people
wouldn't be able to directly contact the authors.

If the general feeling is that you'd rather the addresses be hidden,
perhaps I could create two archives...one private for classiccmp list
members to search the archives *with* addresses, and one public with the
obfuscated addresses.

As usual, any imput at all would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Aaron
Received on Sun Apr 02 2000 - 15:32:03 BST