The counter-argument is, of course, if the archives are trivially available, what is the problem?
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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