On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:06:16 -0500 Stan Horwitz said:
>On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Nathan Brindle wrote:
>
>> >file.  The oldest list for which we keep archives (LSTSRV-L) with =
>> >archives going
>> >back to 1991 only has several hundred files.
>>
>> Actually back to 1986 :)  Including the reverse indexing files there
>> are 294 files in the directory that houses the LSTSRV-L notebooks.
>> Of course these are monthly; if they were weekly that number would
>> probably be closer to 1500.
>
>I am curious. What's the point behind keeping archived postings on
>LSTSRV-L for such a long period of time? The older postings do not seem
>like they would be relevant any longer due to upgrades in the actual
>Listserv software, computer hardware, and operating system technology.

History.

Nathan