The only real obstacle to doing this are legal issues.

In theory once a person posts a message to the list they are essentially
giving it up to the public domain, and removing any exclusive copyright
they had on their message unless they prohibit (through email headers
and other means) archiving of their messages.

However, it could be legally argued that a non-technically savvy person
didn't understand this principle and would challange the distributor of
such a compilation after they've already started distribution, perhaps
even incurring charges above and beyond legal fees and recall fees.

Not to mention that it's being hosted graciously by MIT, and is well
served already by three other online archives.

I would suggest you put out an OT message asking if anyone has a semi or
complete archive you can get by downloading.

Alternately, research the list server commands (instead of subscribe
piclist, type help).  IIRC, the list server keeps an archive of a
certian length and it may well be that you can get a large portion of
the list from there.

-Adam

Dominic Stratten wrote:

>Don't panic !!!!!!!!!!! I'm not planning on doing it. This question may have been asked before but here goes .....
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>Can you / Have you / Would you be able to archive the data from PICLIST onto a CD and maybe sell it for a nominal amount. I use the search facility a bit and many of my questions are answered by older posts. It could be a revenue source for Piclist and updates could be sent out quaterly for a nominal fee.
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>Just an idea but it could save a lot of bandwidth and speed things up for locally searching for solutions to problems.
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>Cheers
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>Dominic
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