On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
Dear Jimmy Wales,
Could you ask those in charge to make the wikimedia.org mailing lists searchable again?
There may be good reasons why they aren't,
but of course one cannot find them,
because they are not searchable!
Thanks.
The reason were people posting private data to the mailing list, then annoying sysadmins to remove then when finding about them on Google.
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.