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From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Searchable (glimpsed) Mailing List archives?
Date: 22 Jun 1996 12:10:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2zq5v7izg.fsf@deanna.miranova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 21 Jun 1996 08:57:52 +0200

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

Lars> Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
>> And I am somewhat wary of inviting Altavista to index it.  How do
>> people feel about this list getting archived on Altavista?

Lars> Well, it is an open mailing list -- I mean, anybody who uses
Lars> Gnus can read it using a few keystrokes in the group buffer --
Lars> so I don't mind being indexed by Alta Vista...

Lars> On the other hand, mailing lists are more private than
Lars> newsgroups, and people do more thinking out loud here than they
Lars> would on a newsgroup, so perhaps people prefer not being
Lars> indexed?

Yup.  The same way that it is *evil* for *.test groups to be archived
on dejanews.  I've worked out an arrangement with Kai Grossjohann to
do the WAIS indexing, and I will leave the archives robot-blocked.

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~1996-06-22 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-06-20 18:45 Shane Holder
1996-06-20 19:42 ` Steven L Baur
1996-06-21  6:57   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-06-22 19:10     ` Steven L Baur [this message]
1996-06-23  7:56       ` Joev Dubach
     [not found]       ` <ycq4to0lvuf.fsf@fierce-bad-rabbit.MIT.EDU>
1996-06-25 12:14         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-06-25 17:46           ` Sten Drescher
1996-06-25 19:13             ` Steven L Baur
1996-06-20 22:36 ` Roger Williams
1996-06-20 23:21 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
1996-06-21  0:02   ` Steven L Baur

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