[tlug] Mailing list web archives..... Is this leagal ?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Tapas Chaturvedi writes:

 > Today I was trying to find the solution for one of the issue. While 
 > googling I found the number of web sites maintaining same Mailing list 
 > web archives. My question is "Is this legal to maintain web archive of 
 > different mailing list/group which you are not owning ?"

Technically, only if you have permission of all authors, which is kind
of difficult to get.  On the other hand, unless you're doing it for
money, the risk is that somebody will mail you and tell you to remove
their post, and you have to do it.  Big deal.

 > I am planning to start one archive site for all the famous gnu/Linux 
 > mailing lists.

Doesn't that already exist, under the name "GMane"?