Well, as no one has answered...

It's related to an incident not long ago where there was a complaint over a message posted here about a named individual (not going to rehash that whole issue). The message was objected to (very strongly) and the archives were made subscriber only; I guess to mitigate the matter (and obviously avoid future incidents of the same type).

I'm sure others can fill in more details than I can. Just answering the basic question.

Tom

On 5 April 2012 04:57, joseph seddon <life_is_bitter_sweet@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
Is there any possibility of having question answered?

I am somewhat dissapointed at this list no longer being publically archived.

Seddon

> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:32:21 +0100
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> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] List archives
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> I think Mike can answer a few of these questions, but he's extremely
> busy over the weekend with conferences etc.
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> On 30/03/2012 01:37, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> > On 30 March 2012 01:33, HJ Mitchell<hjmitchell@ymail.com> wrote:
> >> I thought you had to wait for approval by a list admin, but that approval
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