[WikiEN-l] Mailman software (was Re: Who's moderated?)

[Ray Saintonge]

Armed Blowfish wrote:
> On 08/09/2007, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Not archiving would hamper the utility of the list to the project.
>> Remember that this is a work list for a particular project; having old
>> messages in an official, referable place is way too useful in
>> practice. There is no reason I can see that is helpful to the project
>> to stop archiving.
>>     
> Next option:
> 'Would it be better to let individual users decide whether
> or not they want their messages archived?  If a patch
> were written to grant this capability, would it be used?'
> (quoting self from earlier)
Having a patchwork of archived and non-archived material would produce 
silly results.  If you opted out, just imagine how meaningless the 
flames that you have received would be without the original context. ;-)

Ec