> Forgive my possible ignorance but, isn't making a CD ROM of one's list's > archives, publishing? Something seems amiss about removing the archives > from their source and placing them on such a readily distributable format. > Am I off base? I know not all lists contain particularly personal material > but........ If you run a list freely available to the public everything on the list is published. If the archives are freely available to the public they are published. Putting the archives on a CD-ROM is merely another form of publishing. However, it is a form of publishing not established in the ground rules of participating in a list, unless explicitly stated. If the CD-ROM is going to be sold permission should be sought from each poster to the list included on the CD-ROM and possibly royalties are due each poster. On the other hand, if the CD-ROM is done merely as an archive backup, to be sure of preservation, I would see no problem. Judith and I have certainly done the sort, Jim G. tells us he's going to dump the '91 logs, so Judith stores them on tape and floppies, I store them on floppies, then get Jim to put them back in after the VM > UNIX shift and all is well. Douglas