You miss the point entirely (but that is not your fault, you weren't there), but there was a long discusion of public archiving on a list that was in some ways in an ancestor of this list. Doug was there for that conversation. I joined this list in response to an invitation posted to that (by then) moribund list. There was nothing in the note I got upon subscribing that indicated this was to be a publicaly archived list. In fact, for many years there were no archives at all. I don't object to the archives, I object to the slutty distribution of them. I'd have worn a condom.
Oh, and it is now Monday, and i see the 'polls' have closed sometime over the weekend while i was not reading. Cute, but i don't care. I know what the rules are now, and i didn't actually think i could change them. Ain't my list, nor is it my server, or bandwidth the thing runs off of. What I am bitching about is that the rules were changed, retroactively, without any notice, never mind a vote.
A vote at this point means nothing to me, because my posts have already been distributed far beyond where i sent them, without my permission.
Barn door, horse, gone.
-- no Onan
Undefeated, everybody goes home