Hi Mike

> How can we preserve the listserv archive?

List archives are written in plain-text.  See the Site Manager's Manual,
Section 18.10.3, for details of the format
<http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/16.0/htmlhelp/site%20managers/FileandNotebookArchives.html#2335536>.

Ask your host if they can compress the files into an archive and make
them available for download or, if the cost isn't too much, write them
to a DVD or USB thumb drive and post it to you.  You can then make them
available through your choice of web service, either as a complete
download or uncompress them and make the text visible in a browser.

If you know someone who's a handy web programmer they could probably
knock together a search function that will parse the data and display
the results in a friendlier format (this is exactly what LISTSERV's web
interface already does).

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  Michael Shannon
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