[at-l] Newsreader access to AT-L (admin)

[ryan@hack.net (Ryan K. Brooks)]

Yes, the archives have always been wide open to the web, and so they'll always
be picked up by search engines.

I do have the capability to insert files that would tell (the well behaving)
search engines to not look into the archives.   However, to me, a post to a
mailing list is rather public anyway, so I didn't see a need to hide the
archives from the Net at large.

I will say that it's ultimately up to the subscribers.   If I get a significant
amount of emails asking for me to make the archives hidden, I will do so.

-R


Robert Rubin wrote:

> Ryan, it looks good. On a related subject, I've noticed that a number of my
> list posts turn up on the Internet proper when I do a Google search for my
> trail name. Was that just a temporary thing? To what extent is what goes
> back and forth on the list here "out there" for the whole Internet to read
> without specifically searching our archives? Do web crawlers and search
> engines cache all the posts that show up in the archives now?
>
> (A "yes" answer means I may post even less that I presently do.)
>
> Robert Rubin
>
> At 2:30 PM -0500 4/6/01, Ryan K. Brooks wrote:
> >Consider this "beta":
> >
> >http://www.backcountry.net/usenet.html
> >
> >Try it out and let me know what you think (email: ryan@backcountry.net)
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >-R
> >
> >
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