I got that email a while ago and ignored it because I run a mailing list
for chronically ill people who don't want to give the whole world access to
their stories. But, I think it was nice of them to ask if they could
subscribe instead of just coming in and doing so (unlike the people at
archive.org who came in one night and spent two hours downloading my whole
web site so that they could archive it forever, never bothering to ask my
permission or read the copyright notice, but that's another list and
another topic, isn't it.)

I don't see the point in having some service like this. You can already
make your list archives available in searchable format by email or the Web,
if you put your archives on a web site, they are going to cataloged by at
least two dozen search engines, including AltaVista, which catalogs
everything (too much most of the time). I happen to think that there are
too many search engines on the net already.

Just my opinion.

Karen Strauss