> I think the main complaint is that this is a service that > publicly archives private lists. It's fine that it does > that, but not fine that it does that without letting list > members know...giving them the opportunity to unsubscribe > (or not subscribe in the first place) if they so desire. > > > On a mailman mailing list, that can't happen unless the > > list admin adds it directly.
Oops. Someone reminded me that non-list admins can add lists to mail-archive.com. Confirmation requests get dumped here: http://www.mail-archive.com/archive@mail-archive.com/ Now that I think about it, that seems like a bug and not a feature. The only person who should be able to publicly archive a list should be the administrator/owner of it. The only recourse is for admins to know what the archive@mail-archive.com address is, and either not allow it to subscribe, or remove it from an open subscription list. They can also add an automatic X-No-Archive: header to each list message. I still think that the burden should fall on mail-archive.com to disallow it in the first place. Art -- http://cms-list.org/ more signal, less noise.
