I admit to being a bit curious... I am not trying to drag out the topic, but am just plain curious...
In these environments, what are the "guidelines" for using the internet? I mean, can you surf out to a webmail site and view the contents of the list from an account such as Yahoo! Mail, or GMail or Hotmail? What about viewing the archives from one of the various sites that offer them?
It's been my experience that most mail administrators are... well... Sort of like Smigel when it comes to the ring. All email is their "precious" data and they don't want it to go anywhere. Email is generally journaled, and even threaded so that the powers that be can browse a conversation chain on a whim. I don't know if routing professional list traffic to a webmail account would help your situation or not, but it might be an easy way to get around the "precious data" syndrome that converts mere mortals if you know what I mean.
Another option is to run your own mail server(s), which is what I do. I am currently running Citadel (www.citadel.org) behind an STunnel (www.stunnel.org) server to provide an SSL layer between the browser and the server. It works like a charm.
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