[cumbria_lug] List Archives

[Paul Broomfield]

Err why don't they just have a robots.txt file ?
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html

>-----Original Message-----
>From: cumbria-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk 
>[mailto:cumbria-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Schwuk
>Sent: 22 April 2003 13:40
>To: cumbria@mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: [cumbria_lug] List Archives
>
>
>All,
>
>There has been some dicussion about this on the lugmaster 
>list, and I thought it best to let you all know:
>
>The archives for this mailing list are publicly accessible. 
>This includes being indexed by search engines. Part of the 
>information that is archived, and hence accessible, is the 
>sender's (_not_ the recipients though) email address.
>
>A few lug members (from other lug's, not Cumbria) have 
>complained about this, but short of removing public access to 
>the archives nothing can be done about it, and remove public 
>archive access is against the nature of a public mailing list, 
>IMO. I know that I have found more than a few answers thanks 
>to mailing list archives and google, and would hope that other 
>people will benefit from ours.
>
>So, in short, unless the majority of list subscribers wish for 
>the archives it be 'closed', they will remain open. If you do 
>not want your email address to be 'public', use another one 
>(hushmail, yahoo, hotmail
>etc) or do not post to the list. You do not have to be 
>subscribed to the list to post to it - you can post from a 
>'public' address and still receive the list on your 'private' address.
>
>And yes, I think that it is daft that this has to pointed out 
>in the first place. It's like having "Caution: Contents are 
>hot" on the side of coffee cups...
>
>Cheers,
>-- 
>Schwuk
>
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