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Subject: Re: Web-based archives considered harmful?
From: "Lazlo Nibble" <lazlo @ swcp . com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 22:07:14 -0600 (MDT)
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com (lm)

> I don't mind if my archives are indexed, in fact I welcome it.  But it
> the indexers go overboard (as judged by the users of those indices), why
> should I try to fix things for them?

If you don't like the way the indexes treat your list archives, then
excluding robots from those archives will help solve the problem.  If you
don't care how the indexes treat your list archives, then tell that to the
people who are complaining.

If my list archives were up on the web (which they aren't at the moment, but
they probably will be eventually) I'd do what I suggested to you earlier,
because I think that approach serves everyone best.  But how you run your 
archives is your own business.

-- 
::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)

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