When Yahoo!Groups was eGroups (and before that, OneList) it was quite responsive to suggestions by users. I'm not sure if it still is. I think Nich can try to submit his suggestion to Yahoo!Groups. Who knows? They might entertain it by making a minor editing to their program script so that, e.g., postings with <OT> in the beginning of the subject header would not be archived. I think it's worth a shot, Nich.

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At 11:26 AM 30-06-05, Ong Yong Peng wrote:

>Dear Nich and friends,
>
>thanks for your suggestions. All mailing lists work on top of smtp,
>which may have something like it. However, all mailing list software
>are different, and I doubt Yahoo! Groups has the feature you
>mentioned.
>
>
>metta,
>Yong Peng.
>
>
>--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Nich wrote:
>
>Regarding the message archive: I believe on Usenet that if you put a
>code in the header the message isn't archived. Is there a similar
>function in Yahoo? If not could one note put a notice at the end of
>the Subject line, or a header before the message text saying "X-
>archive" or something like. (In some groups people mark messages "OT"
>for off-topic so people can know to skip them if they're not
>interested. This is particularly useful for those pressed for time or
>who have visual problems.)