Thanks for informing us of the concern. We are careful to always subscribe to lists
under the name listsaver-of-<listname>@findmail.com which is the best way to contact
the list manager in advance to request permission. It is an intentionally obvious
name. There is litte more we can do without being accused of spamming the list or the
list managers.
To avoid lists being archived, the best bet is to use the industry standard tag all
responsible archive sites obey, X-NO-ARCHIVE: Yes. We search for this in the info
file, and on each list messages themselves, as well as for words like "private" in the
info file.
We also make a practice of reviewing lists THAT HAVE TRAFFIC for appropriateness and
sending an extra message. I have fallen behind in this lately. Most suggested lists
are not active so it would be a big waste of everyone's time to inquire about them.
In any case we are always willing to delete archives at the managers request, and we
allow message posters to delete their postings automatically even once they are in the
archives, using the personal message removal systmem.
These days we aren't very interested in providing archives of lists we don't host for
free since we now have free list hosting which makes a lot more sense to us. We have
never made money off of public list archiving. But it is a useful public service and
brings us some good will.
Please be sure to let me know what list it is you don't want archived- I'll mark it
banned so we don't subscribe again. Mail to postmaster is for mail related problems.
Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets quicker service.
Carl
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