On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 02:46:12PM +0200, Herouth Maoz wrote: > Quoting Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 08:10:20PM +0200, Herouth Maoz wrote: > ... > > > There are many reasons why people would not want to archive their > > > messages. For example, if the message contains information which is > > > transient - relevant now, but will become misleading tomorrow. Or when > > > the message is off-topic and they see no value in it being retained. > > > > Basically none of those applies on a mailing list. Mails that should not > > be archived are probably either: > > > > 1. malicious/spam > > 2. duplicates > > 3. messages that were not meant to be sent to the list. > > > > (1) is not relevant to this discussion. (2) is not the typpe of thing > > that is known in advance, and (3) is actually usually worth archiving > > :-( > > Wrong. What I wrote, I meant in the context of a mailing list. An example of > messages which are relevant today but will not be tomorrow: job offers. They > are allowed on the list, but there is no reason for archiving them and they may > even mislead people.
They will know that the job was valid at the time of the posting. However I was recently looking for the exact form of a job offer. I wanted to check if a job offer I saw on a certain other list indeed copies the form of a certain other job offer on linux-il (and it deed). > > And people do send off-topic messages from time to time. Why archive them? Because they were sent to linux-il. If you later want to search for them, you'd look for them in the archive. I also sometimes read a mailing lst from the archives, if my mail account gets very inaccessible. > Things like "In yesterday's lecture during Welcome To Linux I accidentally left > a T-shirt in room 004, has anybody seen it?" will probably be considered > legitimate as this may be the crowd that has a chance of having seen the lost > item. But why should this message be kept for posterity? Sometime you'd search for "who forgot his t-shirt". And it may actually start an interesting thread (e.g: about werable linux gadgets. Just making up, but there were enough of those cases) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
