On 27.04.2008 19:30:19, Michael Bimmler wrote:
Instead, I suggest that http://lists.wikimedia.org/robots.txt be modified as to allow Google (and other search engines) to crawl /pipermail/ again. I do not really see the privacy issues of this, nabble, gmane etc. are google-searchable as well and I really don't see the point in barring Google from our own archive.
Then our mailinglists should already be accessible through Google via 'nabble, gmane etc.', no?
If I am very honest, I do not even remember anymore, why we decided to bar Google from http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail. Was it due to privacy concerns? If so, which, and why is lists.wikimedia.orgas an archive different from Nabble/Gmane?
I remember some cases where people got in really serious trouble due to their discussions on a mailing list, for example when the employer googled their name and found obscenities. It just caused much work for admins to remove single mails from the archives.
Leon