From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6891 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dubach1@husc.harvard.edu (Joev Dubach) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Searchable (glimpsed) Mailing List archives? Date: 23 Jun 1996 03:56:13 -0400 Sender: dubach1@husc.harvard.edu Message-ID: References: Reply-To: dubach1@husc.harvard.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147283 5141 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:54:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:54:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA10205 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 01:47:00 -0700 Original-Received: from husc.harvard.edu (root@husc.harvard.edu [140.247.30.45]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 09:56:20 +0200 Original-Received: from scws26.HARVARD.EDU by husc.harvard.edu with ESMTP id DAA11567; Sun, 23 Jun 1996 03:56:21 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by scws26.HARVARD.EDU with id DAA08288 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 22 Jun 1996 12:10:26 -0700 Original-Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.25/Emacs 19.30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6891 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6891 Steven L Baur writes: >>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: Lars> Steven L Baur 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? Joev "Marge, _everything_ is a sin. You ever sat down and read this thing? Technically, we're not allowed to go to the bathroom." -- Reverend Lovejoy on the Bible, The Simpsons