I certainly vote for searchable archives. Tom Jenkins M17 Scintilla On Mar 23, 2012, at 1:05 PM, W David Scobie wrote:
keith:
yes we need to have things searchable. there are lots of good information that needs to be accessible. without that information available one looses the 15+ years of history that is available on the list.
what needs to be remembered that anything, ANYTHING, you do on the net is public (yes, this includes email and the www-sites you visit) and can be found/searched/read.
:: Dave Scobie :: Sage Marine
--- On Fri, 3/23/12, Keith Diehl <kdiehl@xmission.com> wrote:
In the past, some members were very concerned that their postings were readable by non-members, so I closed the archives to public viewing and cancelled our searchable archives. I never quite understood the concern, since anyone can join the mailing and then read everything old and new, but that was what was wanted.
The question of searchable archives has come up again, so I'll ask the membership:
Would you like to have searchable archives if it means the archives are readable by anyone on the internet, including search engines?
As an example of what we could have, here is the main Lurker search engine page for Xmission hosted public lists;
http://mailman.xmission.com/lurker/splash/index.en.html
Keith Diehl Cottonwood Heights, UT