BLU archives

[galsterm at gmail.com (Matt Galster)]

On 1/29/06, Bill Horne <bill at horne.net> wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Please don't. The discuss archive has so many of my "private" email
> addresses in it that I'd have to go into the Internet witness protection
> program if Google gets to it. Let's leave the archive un-indexed.
>
> FWIW. YMMV.
>
> Bill Horne
>
> Tom Metro wrote:
>
> > I just tried looking something up in the BLU (discuss list) archives:
> >
> > http://olduvai.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/
> >
> > and noticed we don't have a search engine. These days Google is the
> > quick answer to that problem, but Google seems to have a very limited
> > index of olduvai.blu.org. For example, a search that should have
> > turned up a few hundred posts in the entire archive, or even several
> > from January, only turned up one from the January archive.
> >
> > Are there steps we can take to get Google to spider the site? Are
> > there any robot rules preventing Google from spidering the site?
> >
> > Are there any other list archiving services that archive BLU discuss?
> > (Usually they turn up in a Google search, but I found none on the web
> > or in groups.) If not, maybe we should start using one as a secondary
> > archive.
> >
> > We could always change the archiving software to one that provides a
> > search feature, but that's probably more work than getting Google to
> > work.
> >
> >  -Tom
> >
>
I agree with Bill.  You can download a copy of the archive and search
it if you want.  My proposal, if we decide we must make it public, is
to have a future cut off date.  The posts in that part of the archive
after date can be spidered, but not the old archive.

My first choice - I would prefer it were left alone.

MEG