Re: [Harp-L] Yahoo Groups vs regular email list questions

[fjm <mktspot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Moyer writes:
> In the past it always seemed to drop a few posts 
> from a few people (unfortunately, in the past it seemed that Chris 
> Michalek's posts were dropped), but that seems to be remedied now.  
> Of course, you don't know what you don't know, but I don't see those 
> fragments of threads with no heads they way I used to. 

As the Yahoo archive grew in size we reached the size limit and had 
problems with disappearing posts.  Something at Yahoo has since changed 
and we just lose the stuff off of the bottom of the stack.  Changing 
IP's has also helped.  We have functioning reverse dns and no mismatch 
between our IP address and domain name.  In short we look a lot more 
legit these days.

Regarding the archive on Yahoo, it has been edited occasionally.  I 
removed a very ugly political off topic exchange and I also will remove 
accidental duplicate posts.  Someone posted personal information once, 
that got removed to preserve their privacy.  Very little if any content 
editing occurs on the Yahoo archive.  I personally have never removed 
any posts from Chris Michalek.  I'm not aware of anybody else doing so. 
    There is some discontinuity between the Official Harp-l-archive and 
the semi official Yahoo harp-l-archive.  The vast majority of this 
discrepancy is due to the space limitations at Yahoo.  The Official 
archive is considered sacrosanct.   Try searching on a departing 
member's personal attack of the listowner, it's still there and it ain't 
going anywhere.

Finally yes, I did answer the original query off list but only because I 
tend to keep a pretty low list profile these days.  fjm harp-l-listowner