I was reading the FAQ on the mail archives site and noticed this in the
"Will this service work for my list" section:


"We do not archive lists whose name does not begin with a letter."


"We require that the name of the list be present somewhere in the email
headers. Almost all mailing lists do this automatically. For example, when
people send mail to the list [EMAIL PROTECTED], the name of the list
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) shows up prominently in the To: header as well as other
places. A few lists do funny tricks with email headers, and try to hide the
name of the list. Spammers are notorious for forging and hiding headers.
Sometimes even legitimate lists will try to hide the listname. This is most
common when the list is for one-to-many communications, as opposed to
many-to-many communications. Any list that mangles email headers to hide its
name is incompatible with the service and will not be archived. 
-- We do not archive lists whose name does not begin with a letter. -- We've
found that list names beginning with numbers or unusual punctuation are
almost always "noise" (unsolicited commercial email or spam.) We do not
archive any lists originating at YahooGroups, for a variety of reasons."


ML

-----Original Message-----
From: David Gillies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 5:16 PM
To: 313 Detroit
Subject: Re: (313) Searchable Archives

Sakari Karipuro wrote:

>Dan Sicko wrote on Tue, 6 Jan 2004 about following:
>
>>f course the issue that raises is exposing everyone's email addresses 
>>to spammers.  There's the old "name AT service DOT com" replacement, 
>>but I'm still chewing on that one.
>>    
>>
>just remove the mail addresses. simple as that.
> 
>(for future archives, take a look at http://www.mail-archive.com)
>  
>
http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html#newlist

*nod* to that. That was going to be my suggestion as well. You can even 
forward all the old archives to mail-archive.com, so everything is 
available. Once its there, it'll be all good. :-D


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