On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Dan Kegel wrote:
Examples of effective privacy measures for mailing list archives include:
- restricting archive access to list members
- not restricting access, but using the HTTP password mechanism to discourage spiders (e.g. perforce-users mailing list)
I am sorry, but this makes the archives unavailable to Google, which is just plain unaccetable. We might as well not have them at all, our search engine on WineHQ is basically useless for searching the archives (it fails to do even a shitty job, whereas the same query on Google will get you what you want virtually every time).