It occurs to me that maybe I should have made it clearer in my
original posting on this subject that by an "email archive" I mean an
archive devoted to that list's email and housed on a web site, which
is typically the case. This is what makes the distinction between "an
email" and "something published on the internet" so blurry.
> if it is posted to a listserv with a public archive, it is considered
> published
The statement may seem reasonable, but is factually wrong, or at least
incomplete: it's not "considered published", period, under those
conditions, it's only "considered published" by some people. We have
an example of this disagreement right here on this poetryetc list in
the past 24 hours, where some members have stated that poems sent by
email to a discussion list are NOT to be considered published.
Clearly those people would say that poems sent to the discussion list
poetryetc are NOT to be considered published, but since poetryetc has
a publicly accessible archive, according to the statement quoted
above, poems sent here ARE to be considered published. My point is
not that one view or the other is right, but that neither can be
called a standard by consensus.
I also refer to my original post which tried to show that the idea of
a "public archive" is not at all a clear one.
if the site or archive goes down or moves, it is still available
> through the internet archive/wayback machine
> http://www.archive.org/index.php
Only sometimes; there are lots of things that aren't there.
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