On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 5:01 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/8/22 Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu:
False. The reason is that people can post entirely reasonable things on these lists and employers can then be hyper-discriminative about their personal interests and choose not to hire them, or to fire them.
Pity they're all over gmane and nabble, then.
Suggestion: a Google search on gmane and/or nabble linked from the archive pages.
- d.
Yes, those sites fail to respect robots.txt and have the outrageous policy that they will only withhold emails from their archive that have the X-No-Archive header in them. Which you, as a gmail user, could not possibly include in one of your e-mails unless you used a very new feature which allows you to host your own smtp server and route messages through that.
Furthermore it's a double standard that the foundation makes the list archives available to non-members but they "agree" with the logic of putting the lists in robots.txt exclusion.