IIRC, at some point in the past people objected to bots harvesting their email addresses
from a publicly indexed version.
Not saying that’s a good reason, but that’s my recollection.
Sent from my iPad
On Apr 29, 2018, at 9:11 AM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
For this list, it's an obviously good idea. It's already search engine
indexed offsite, there's no good reason not to have our own archive do the
same.
- d.
On 28 April 2018 at 18:51, Brian Wolff
<bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Currently
https://lists.wikimedia.org/robots.txt bans indexing the
public archives of this list (at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/ )
Appearently this happened back in 2005 due to some people complaining
about their posts on some lists (not neccesarily this one) being at
the top of google.
I think its kind of rediculous the tech support list for mediawiki not
indexable by google*. The first step for anyone trying to solve their
problem should be to google it but yet we don't let google show
results from this list.
Its my understanding that if a list want to be indexed by google, that
the config would be changed for lists that request it.
Thus, I would like to formerly propose that mediawiki-l be allowed to
be indexed by google et al.
Thoughts? Objections?
--
Brian
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