The service does not cost a lot to run and takes advantage of existing infrastructure. We provide this service, for free, because we can. There are several ways you might be able to help out with The Mail Archive. Any feedback we get goes towards making a better service. There is a place to submit feedback on the general information page.
Nothing is planned for the immediate future.
Please let us know what you are looking for. There are several possibilities, including CD-ROM's of archives password or certificate based access control of individual archives sorting mailing lists into categories timestamps and cryptographically strong digital signatures on archived messages. For hardware, The Mail Archive primarily utilizes a dual processor x86 architecture server attached to high speed RAID disk array. The hardware based RAID-5 has a data capacity of approximately 186 gigabytes and allows for hotswap replacement in case of disk failure. The server is housed in California on a professionally managed network, including battery buffered power, high speed network connect, and high clue network administrators.