I'd expect them to be made available *eventually*
times may be a-changing. Putting material into a library
in hard-copy made it available, but in reality few was ever
looked over again (and thus few people had reason to regret
what they said, verbatim, in an interview).
Putting it up for FTP however ....
I have been monitoring retrieval of files in my FTPable archives
for a while, and I am amazed at how often some of my obscure
files have been accessed (and to this day do not know how the
word about them spreads or what makes people find them); as an
experiment, put a file with "KGB" into an obscure corner of your
FTP-directory, filled with discussion messages in a foreign
language...
:-))
PS and BTW: have you ever been criticized for monitoring who accesses
your "anonymous" archives? Is this information public or
confidential (who retrieves what, from where, when)?
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