- The Mail Archive
The Mail Archive is a free public
mailing list archive . Rather than requiring the owner of a public mailing list to make arrangements to archive it, anyone can subscribe The Mail Archive to their list (as a user account) in order toarchive all subsequent mails appearing on the list.It was started in
1998 byJeff Breidenbach and is now also maintained with the help of anotherMIT graduate,Jeff Marshall . It makes heavy use ofMHonArc and otherfree software . The service's stated goal is to be "free, easy to use, and to do the right thing." It offers per-list searching, and has spam filtering and CSS customization.ize and expansion of archive
The Mail Archive currently gains several hundred thousand messages weekly. As of
17 September 2008 , the service claims inclusion of 56,830,080 messages in its archives, and is subscribed to 8,959 active lists.As a historical comparison, according to [http://web.archive.org/web/20020529235113/http://www.mail-archive.com/ archive.org] , The Mail Archive held 5,226,371 messages from 2,697 lists on
29 May 2002 . TheHelsinki Institute for Information Technology analyzed a sample of 2,561,429 messages from The Mail Archive in November 2003. [Perkiö, Tuulos, Buntine, Tirri. [http://cosco.hiit.fi/Articles/wi05-mail.pdf Multi-Faceted Information Retrieval System for Large Scale Email Archives] Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM Conference on Web Intelligence pp. 557-564, 2005.]References
External links
* [http://www.mail-archive.com/ The Mail Archive]
* [http://www.jab.org/ Jeff Breidenbach]
* [http://www.frozenbear.com/ Jeff Marshall]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/19981205150430/http://www.mail-archive.com/index.html The Internet Wayback Machine's first index of The Mail Archive]
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