MARC (Mailing list ARChive) is a

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. It archives over 31 million e-mails from over 2400 mailing lists, with approximately 320,000 new mails added per month. The archive is hosted by KoreLogic, and is maintained by a group of volunteers led by Hank Leininger. Mailing list indexes includes popular mailing list such as

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. MARC was founded in 1996 to serve as a unified archive of

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s, similar to what

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. MARC uses a

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to store its messages and

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to access the data. The archive can be searched for mailing list names, authors, subject lines and full-text of the e-mail messages.

Privacy criticism

In controversy with

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MARC is very reluctant to delete posts upon user requests. The strict requirements are: * On request from an original poster ... that is agreed-to by the list admin/owner. * Court orders to remove messages Mails not conforming to this rules are ignored and not responded to.

External links

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References

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