At 09:30 05/07/2004 Friday, Stephen C. Nill wrote:
>[...] I too have been considering taking our public lists private, for
>the same reasons.  Still, I'm greatly hesitant to do so because our
>mission is to make available our resources to literally every nonprofit
>professional in the world who can benefit by them.  Taking our public
>archives private would be a step backwards because, as I understand it,
>a person would have to be subscribed to the lists to be searched --
>erecting a barrier to the ability to do an easy cross-list search.

Many would consider LISTSERV Searching a barrier [I used to co-operate
the LDBASE-L list which discussed LISTSERV SEARCH features].  GOOGLE is
the de facto search engine of choice for many folks.

Just my 2 bits.

/Pete