On 21 Dec 2000, 14:25, Stephanie da Silva wrote:
> Here's the description of the list on eGroups:
>
> An unofficial archive of the mailing list Datamine-L. The archiving
> starts on October 22, 2000.
So okay, we now know the creator of this egroups list created a private
list at egroups to stockpile their copies of the datamine-l list.
The question before us would be "are they in the wrong?"
If we subscribe to a mailing list that provides us useful reference
documents, don't we have the right to store those messages on our disk
drive?
Suppose we had a remote account someplace, such as a shell account or
file or web hosting services. Would we be in the wrong to upload those
useful messages to save for later reference and research?
If we purchase a book, don't we have a right to store it someplace?
Personally, I think all this talk about attorneys is preposterous. The
owner of that egroups site is just a fan of the datamine-l list and
wants to store their list messages. egroups archiving is excellent for
searching through large amounts of messages for a keyword or phrase.
I have used egroups in this regard myself. egroups is actually
superior in my view to file hosting services such as xfiles and
freedrive, particularly in storing text files, such as email messages.
But it can also be used to store binary files. I find egroups faster
in uploading that the big commercial file hosts. And sharing among
friends is as easy as subscribing to the list.
> It's possible one of her users did it.
Probable, I'd say. I wonder if her own archiving is lacking in some
way?
Dorothy, how do you archive your list messages if at all? If you do
archive them, are they accessible to your subscribers? Is searching
the archives an easy experience? If not, then perhaps you should look
into improving archive access.
As to the bounce you received, Dorothy, I imagine one of the two
subscribers to the egroups datamine-l list attempted to do a "redirect"
forward of one of your posts and it bounced to you. It would be as if
you tried to post to that list yourself, but were rejected due to not
being a subscriber.
> Now that eGroups is mutating into Yahoo, I've found their customer
> service has gone downhill.
Naw. Customer service at ONElist and Egroups has always been the pits.
Under Yahoo's ownership, we can all be confident that customer service
will remain the status no.
Alan
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