I have seen you added this feature to the phpa site, and found it valuable. In fact this archive seems to have more features then the MARC archives we link to. I vote +1 for publishing a news item, and putting a link onto the mailing-lists page pointing to your archives. I would also
like to suggest replacing the MARC links with links to this archive if nobody is against it (or provide two links, like it is in the newsgrop column now).
I'm against this. MARC is not related to any commercial activity to PHP, and remains an independent party. Zend also has a searchable archive, so have other companies. Although it might be working better, it's still linked to a commercial entity and it's not PHP.net's job to provide every way of free marketing to them. (And yes, this includes S&S Verlag too). I don't have problems with announcing contests or conferences, but this is a bit too far.
We have announced every new stuff S&S had introduced, and it seems to be clean, that php|a introduces more valuable services. By the way, it is also noticable, that we are not announcing any other commercial things on php.net, like Zend products, or other kind of services.
OK, so what if we add the known mailing list arvhive links to the mailing-list page (including the zend archive), and let the users choose which one to use (while not touching the MARC list archive links for now). Currently only the phpbuilder archives are listed as alternative mailing list archives.
Goba