I think it is silly for anyone to " guard" the archives! It was a GREAT pleasure to look at all th activities of the Montgomery fleet and it was a major reason to purchase one! It should be avaliabve to anyone and in turn would prompt others to join the crew and purchase a Monty. Is it better to not allow someone to see what a magnificent boat we all enjoy or invite them to join us!????? --- On Fri, 3/23/12, Keith Diehl <kdiehl@xmission.com> wrote: From: Keith Diehl <kdiehl@xmission.com> Subject: M_Boats: Searchable Archives To: "Montgomery Boats List" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Friday, March 23, 2012, 2:52 PM In the past, some members were very concerned that their postings were readable by non-members, so I closed the archives to public viewing and cancelled our searchable archives. I never quite understood the concern, since anyone can join the mailing and then read everything old and new, but that was what was wanted. The question of searchable archives has come up again, so I'll ask the membership: Would you like to have searchable archives if it means the archives are readable by anyone on the internet, including search engines? As an example of what we could have, here is the main Lurker search engine page for Xmission hosted public lists; http://mailman.xmission.com/lurker/splash/index.en.html Keith Diehl Cottonwood Heights, UT