> Me?  I replied that they are welcome to subscribe, and to do what any other
> subscriber on my list is capable of doing, i.e., saving new postings, and
> retrieving old postings from the archives.   No big deal, and no different
> from what "WebCrawler" (http://WWW.WebCrawler.COM) is doing for WWW-sites.
 
I also gave permission to InfoSeek to archive my LANMAN-L list.  It
seems to me that it adds value and no one is forced to use it.  I took
advantage of their free trial offer a while back and thought the
service looked useful.  It is possible to do searches over multiple
sources of information (which include various publications, not just
lists and newsgroups), which seems like a valuable feature to me.
While I haven't done it yet, when I get the time I probably will sign
up for their plan that costs nothing if you don't use the service.
 
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