andyl2004(a)sympatico.ca (andyl2004(a)sympatico.ca) [050803 07:28]:
Following up on my earlier question regarding this
lists archives and google - is it really necessary to have the archives publicly available
rather than open only to subscribers to the list? And if it is necessary to make them
publicly available do they really have to be accessible to google?
Yes and yes. It's an open list for an open source project, and that's how
people look stuff up and research and learn what's been done before and so
on. It seems to me to be basically ridiculous to suggest it should be
otherwise. Of what possible benefit to the project would it be to keep it
closed? Whose secrets are we protecting? Every edit on the wiki is
attributed and researchable, why not the list?
- d.