>So, what do others think? I am willing to take the idea up again and >build it and host it myself. I could start out with everything then have >information on the archive pages about how to contact me for changes, >edits to email addresses, etc. I would likely be doing the moving of >email from the list to the archive myself until I built the scripts to >take it directly from mail itself -- one archiving solution I found >actually has the PERL or whatever scripts to do this, I think. But at >that point I could likely modify them to account for special cases. >Whatever the case, I have just over 5000 PM List messages going back to >January 2002 which I could dump into the archive right away. (And remove >from my PM database :) ) > >Thoughts, ideas? doesn't matter?
Michael , I think most of the very real problems you mention can be approached by: 1. persuade CTM to publish the archive address and additional information regarding that in the headers or list byline and also on their website. 2. protecting archives with a password 3. obscuring email addresses, so that they could be retrieved as such only one at a time. 2 and 3 would prevent robots collecting addresses. 1 would inform all potential subscribers. 3 is perhaps not a standard solution, but I'm sure some in the open source communities around a specific mail archive product, could be convinced to cook something up, if it's not already existing. It would mean people could get in touch with individuals when they read in the archives. It could perhaps be made optional if you wanted to not be "requestable" in the archive. By the way, did you know there is a mail server product called Powermail <http://www.powerdns.com/powermail/>? I haven't checked it out, but found it googling.
