[Mailman-Users] Odd Subscriptions

[David Andrews]

At 03:41 PM 7/17/2011, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>David Andrews wrote:
> >
> >So, at the risk of seeming stupid, what is it that they are trying to
> >do, or doing.  Are they collecting addresses for spam, or what?  If I
> >don't ask, I won't learn.
>
>
>As I said in my original reply, "It's answerpot <http://answerpot.com/>
>archiving your lists."  They are subscribing to your lists in order to
>collect list posts for their archive. See their web site for more info.


You did say that and I just didn't check it out.  Is there any reason 
to not let them do this?  My sponsoring organization is involved in a 
lot of public education kinds of things, and want to get the word 
out.  Is there a negative, or spam risk, or something to letting them 
archive?  And ... finally, why do they need multiple subscribes to 
the same list?

Sorry if I am asking to many questions -- I know you aren't their 
representative or defender.

Dave