The value of a set of archives is often unrelated to its age, or even
whether the particular mailing list is still in existence. For example,
the EDI-L mailing list moved from a listserve mailing list hosted at the
Univ. of California to Yahoo for various reasons. The Yahoo portion
obviously can
> As for technical solutions:
>
> * Archives that have not received a new message over a certain period
> of time could be targeted for deletion. I am sure there are archives
> that are no longer used, so they could be removed. The key is to
> determine what is the proper period.
I'm al
> I guess I like the idea of expiring after no visits more than no
> new posts, as looking up old messages is the real purpose of an archive, and
> a lack of new messages doesn't indicate that the archive isn't being used.
Impossible. Crawlers from AltaVista and Google and friends visit all
archi
In a previous episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> * Archives that have not received a new message over a certain period
> of time could be targeted for deletion. I am sure there are archives
> that are no longer used, so they could be removed. The key is to
> determine what is the proper period.
