Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 03:15:38 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
        WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: New list (was Re: This list is... )
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 2/12/2006 03:09 AM, Ted White wrote:
>Mike B. wrote:
>
>[...]
> >
> >  The archive question is one of the reasons I don't like using
> >  Yahoo...while they are maintained for now, Yahoo makes no promises of
> >  what will happen to them in future. They could be deleted at any
> >  time and without warning for instance...says so in the TOS. Lack of
> >  archives could easily lead to interpersonal problems in WSFA...as
> >  memories seem to be very subjective and not always congruent with
> >  fact. Being able to access the exact text of prior posts is one way
> >  to determine the difference between fact and fiction...and that need
> >  could come up years later, as we've seen recently.
>
>Seems to me the "interpersonal problems" occurred anyway, archives or no
>archives.

Yes, but anyone interested in what was going on had a reference to go check
out the causes for themselves.  The anonymous person who put together
extracts was helpful, but with the archives if could have been done by
anyone at any time.

-- Mike B.