"David Gerard" wrote

Not really IMO.

Realistically, though. If there were no central archive, someone would keep a full private one, anyway. They would not be accountable in the same way. How would that help with the issue being raised? Scenario on the list:

A: What about X? That name came up before, maybe eighteen months ago.

B: Yup, we checkusered X and it was inconclusive.

C: Well, I said then that I thought X and Y might have been meatpuppets. "Nothing was ever proved".

A: What were the details? Anyone have the mails.

B: I have some of them. Here's the crucial bit: [...]

C: Wasn't there that other angle, though? And then there was the odd mail we got relaying some other suspicions, that we didn't pay any mind at the time ...

etc., etc.

So you get another thread - and the list is cluttered up with information exchanges. (This is actually perhaps not a very realistic conversation, deliberately. If you think this is all too shocking, try not to get elected.)

Charles

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