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. And people do send off-topic messages from time to time. Why archive them? 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? Herouth ================================================================= 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]
