Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I meant that you still have an offline copy of the mailing list and can see the full picture of what's publicly going on, and you

Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I meant that you still have an offline copy of the mailing list and can see the full picture of what's publicly going on, and you have everybody's contact info. You can see who's involved with what problems and get to work during the downtime.