At 20:15 08/03/2005, you wrote:
 At 01:38 PM 3/8/2005, Adrian Vickers wrote:
 Well, touch wood - I've lost very few (if any)
e-mails since 1996, when  
 I first got connected to the Internet. Proper backups are
the key,
 something too many people have forgotten these days, now that hardware is
 reliable[1].
Yes, but does anyone here actually save every message? 
Um, yes...
 And speaking of backup, is it relevant to this
discussion to know
exactly how the mailing list archives are backed-up and/or mirrored? 
Probably not, strictly speaking.