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.
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Dean Anderson wrote:
> Disks are cheap. 250Gig is under $400, and works just fine for slightly
> long term storage.
>
> --Dean
>
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
>
> > At 11:27 AM -0600 6/16/03, Vernon Schryver wrote:
> > >All contributions that are rejected
> > >by any moderators (including spam filters) of any IRTF or IETF mailing
> > >lists must be archived and should be published on web pages somewhere.
> >
> > FWIW, some of the IETF WG mailing lists that IMC runs get >10 spams a
> > day, and often get the virus/trojans that are >120K each. This is not
> > an insignificant amount of junk to wade through when looking for
> > proof of moderator badness/goodness.
> >
> > And there's also the problem of robots that harvest everything,
> > regardless of your robots.txt file. If we had a system like you
> > describe, it would be believable that the archives would get a fair
> > number of hits from people searching for pr0n but finding our archive
> > of spam instead.
> >
> > I think that having all bounces (for whatever reason) archived is
> > fine; I think having it as "web pages somewhere" is overkill. Access
> > to one of the big text archives can be a trivial password given to
> > anyone who wants it for research purposes.
> >
> > --Paul Hoffman, Director
> > --Internet Mail Consortium
> >
> >
>
>
>
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