You are assuming his listserv site DOES archive that far back (many
don't, even university sites.  I have a list hosted at Brown with about
a year's worth of archive space give the list's monthly traffic.  Every
couple of months I have to delete old archives.  Also, lsoft, for
example, charges a monthly fee for archive space, so certainly a free
commercial concern archiving the list would save the listowner money.
For six years of archives a free archiving service could save the
listowner $30 or more a month.

Jason

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Winship wrote:

> I am puzzled here.  if you have your own archives as part of
> LISTSERV, going back ten years, or six years - depends on list-
> and they are complete and totally under your control, why would
> you want someone else to "archive" it, particularly a commercial
> concern?  Our archives can be searched via email or the web, or
> if you're a masochist you can get the logs.  Why would you want
> it "archived" elsewhere?      Douglas
>