Re: Searchable (glimpsed) Mailing List archives?

[dubach1@husc.harvard.edu (Joev Dubach)]

Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

>>>>>> "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.

I would really rather that it _were_ allowed to be indexed through
Alta Vista.  There are a lot of good ideas that go through this list,
and it'd be nice if it were easier to retrieve them.  It is publicly
accessible, after all; what's the harm in letting the public access it
more easily?

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