IIRC, at some point in the past people objected to bots harvesting their email addresses from a publicly indexed version.
Not saying that’s a good reason, but that’s my recollection. Sent from my iPad > On Apr 29, 2018, at 9:11 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > > For this list, it's an obviously good idea. It's already search engine > indexed offsite, there's no good reason not to have our own archive do the > same. > > > - d. > >> On 28 April 2018 at 18:51, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Currently https://lists.wikimedia.org/robots.txt bans indexing the >> public archives of this list (at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/ ) >> >> Appearently this happened back in 2005 due to some people complaining >> about their posts on some lists (not neccesarily this one) being at >> the top of google. >> >> I think its kind of rediculous the tech support list for mediawiki not >> indexable by google*. The first step for anyone trying to solve their >> problem should be to google it but yet we don't let google show >> results from this list. >> >> Its my understanding that if a list want to be indexed by google, that >> the config would be changed for lists that request it. >> >> Thus, I would like to formerly propose that mediawiki-l be allowed to >> be indexed by google et al. >> >> Thoughts? Objections? >> >> -- >> Brian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> To unsubscribe, go to: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
