On Sat, 16 Sep 1995 hallam@w3.org wrote:

One thought to ponder on. There is no real difference in terms of resources required between a mailing list and an archive of a mailing list at a Web site. The latter does avoid a large number of unnecessary dispatches however.

However: a) You can't read it through a remailer (yet). b) Anyone watching the site can tell which threads you're interested in, and thereby determine what your real interests in this group are. c) It cuts off anyone who doesn't have direct net access, or can't afford long telephone calls. It's a lot cheaper to download a day's mail in one go than to spend three hours browsing a WWW site. Mark