Why archive PUBLIC email listings? Just let sbscribers see them.

[rlrandallx]

Why archive PUBLIC email listings?  Just let subscribers see them.
Doesn't this just feed the spammers and virus creators?  Maybe you get big money selling email addresses?
A subscriber replied to my message from another website and some PRIVATE information was made PUBLIC (I searched for an unlisted phone number in Google and got a hit from nabble.com.)
I could not delete it from the archive because I was not the email owner.  Hopefully the owner will respond to my request and delete the entire message including my original attachment.
I suppose if Google becomes a subscriber they could still access this information.

Another alternative would be to allow subscribers to edit/delete emails which are attached to "nabble" emails or maybe numbers in the form (###) ###-#### or ###-###-#### could be blanked out.
Also I was looking for a specific "Privacy Policy" on your site and could not find it.

Regards,
Robin

[Will L <Nabble>]

Public mailing list archive is common. An archive needs to be public to everyone because people need to search it even if they are not subscribers, or they may have subscribed before but decided to unsubscribe but still want to browse it to follow the list or to search it occasionally.

An email sent to a public mailing list will become a public record. Nabble is just one archiver, there are several other third-party archives and also there is the native archive by the mailing list server. We do our best to allow you to delete your own posts (most archives don't allow you to do this by yourself), but we cannot allow you to edit or delete other people's posts. So you did the right thing to ask the post owner for permission.