MARC (archive)

MARC (Mailing list ARChive) is a computer-related mailing list archive. It archives over 31 million e-mails from over 2400 mailing lists, with approximately 320,000 new mails added per month. The archive is hosted by KoreLogic, and is maintained by a group of volunteers led by Hank Leininger.[1]

For MARC, the library cataloging standard, see MARC standards. For other uses, see Marc (disambiguation).

Mailing list indexes includes popular mailing list such as Linux kernel mailing list.

MARC was founded in 1996 to serve as a unified archive of electronic mailing lists, similar to what DejaNews (now Google Groups) did for Usenet.

MARC uses a MySQL relational database to store its messages and Perl to access the data.[1] The archive can be searched for mailing list names, authors, subject lines and full-text of the e-mail messages.

Privacy criticism

In controversy with Right to be forgotten MARC is very reluctant to delete posts upon user requests.

The strict requirements are:

  • On request from an original poster ... that is agreed-to by the list admin/owner.
  • Court orders to remove messages

Mails not conforming to this rules are ignored and not responded to.

gollark: I just buy 50 of them every few years.
gollark: This is why you should buy pens in bulk like me.
gollark: I see.
gollark: Well, I'm not left-handed. And don't generally. So it's quite hard.
gollark: I've recently tried practicing writing with my left hand for purposes, which turns out to actually be 3 hard.

References
  1. "About MARC". MARC. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
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