The counter-argument is, of course, if the archives are trivially available, what is the problem? On Apr 5, 2012 11:20 PM, "Thomas Dalton" thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 April 2012 23:10, Thomas Morton morton.thomas@googlemail.com wrote:
Well; someone just told me I was mistaken and that wasn't the reason.
Sorry!
Perhaps that someone would like to tell us what the actual reason was?
All having the archives private does is make it more inconvenient. Anyone can still access them by subscribing. They are still indexed by search engines because there are unofficial archives elsewhere on the web. What is the gain?
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