Hoi, When it is clear to people that obscenities can be found and are found, it may help people not to utter obscenities. Many people argue that the Foundation-l is irrelevant but given that there are few other ways to reach the people that are interested in things to do with the foundation itself, they are imho wrong. Many people argue that one of the reasons why is excessive output to the list and the quality of the discourse. I could argue that allowing Google to spider our mail archive might help somewhat. Thanks, GerardM
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Leon Weber leon@leonweber.de wrote:
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
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
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