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[Bernhard Reiter]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:33:41PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:51:15AM +0100, Paul Kelly wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > 
> > > Note:
> > > Currently the search engine doesn't work any more due to the new
> > > password protection of the archives. I'll have to look into this.
> > 
> > It is very useful the way all the lists are currently indexed on Google.
> > It would be a great pity to lose this (presumably the Google indexing
> > robot can't access the archive either now).
> 
> In fact I have actively deleted the google index to get the mailing
> list out for spam protection reasons.
> Meanwhile the htdig on grass.itc.it seems to work again (but only
> fixed for the HTML pages, I don't get the virtual directory /pipermail/
> indexed, although I have generated a /pipermail/index.html.).
> 
> Well, we have to agree on the archives policy:
> 
> a) keep extern search engines out of our archives (current implementation)

Not a real option.
This is among the biggest resource of the internet.

> b) allow google et al. to index the archives (meanwhile the email addresses
>    are no longer coded as foo at bar.baf but as foo at bar.baf)

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