title: MARC (archive)
text: # 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.
  
  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. 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.
  
  