Mailing list archives? Questions...

Hi all, I know that Kevan posted that he's working on getting his archives back up, but a question in the meantime... I've been thinking of making a new archive of the list available at retrobytes.org (starting with this month); any comments/concerns/advice? Do I have to get anyone's explicit permission to do this? Lastly, assuming I go through with this, would people prefer that I set Mhonarc to obfuscate everyone's email addresses? The benefit, of course, is that a spammer's address crawler couldn't pick up everyone's addresses wouldn't be able to directly contact the authors. If the general feeling is that you'd rather the addresses be hidden, perhaps I could create two archives...one private for classiccmp list members to search the archives *with* addresses, and one public with the obfuscated addresses. As usual, any imput at all would be appreciated. Cheers, Aaron