I think this depends on the nature of the list: the ones I run
are sort of scholarly (focused on discussions of teaching,
mostly) and I often find it useful to tell people that
something's been discussed and there's useful information back a
few mnonths, or years. But I sure see the argument for its
being more like conversation, which isn't archived and shouldn't
be . . .
-- Russ
> I've never liked archives. I had the experience of new
> people coming onto my forum, browsing the archives, becoming
> incensed at some previous article or other that had mentioned
> them and demanding that I remove said offending articles.
> (Mine are a contentious lot.) My solution was to drop
> archives entirely.
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