I see the benefits of beiing google searchable. But the bad side about ist
that it increases your spam. Spammers use crawler programs which automaticly
browse the web for adresses. That's why some people don't want to appear
their adresses anywhere on the web.
Claudius
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag
> von Kevin Turner
> Gesendet: Samstag, 27. November 2004 09:37
> An: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff: Re: List migration
>
>
> >it would mean the archives aren't Google searchable
>
> that's an important point, since it was via a google search
> that i came across the list in the first place...
>
> k
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Kelly" <mgekelly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 4:00 AM
> Subject: List migration
>
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > it seems that of all these responses, everyone is keen to keep the
> > list going. The only argument is where that should happen,
> but I think
> > it is pretty obvious that we should all migrate to the same place
> > since the usefulness of the list is more-or-less
> proportional to the
> > number of
> users.
> > I want to add my voice to the chorus against Yahoo!. I use Yahoo!
> > groups myself, but they have drawbacks, notably advertising
> getting in
> > the way, which we don't need to suffer since I am pretty
> convinced we
> > can get space on some other server. Also, it would mean the
> archives
> > aren't Google searchable, which they are at present - i.e. Google
> > searches about issues
> in
> > Foucault will yield answers originally posted to this list, which is
> great,
> > but will no longer happen if we go to Yahoo!.
> >
> > Mark Kelly
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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that it increases your spam. Spammers use crawler programs which automaticly
browse the web for adresses. That's why some people don't want to appear
their adresses anywhere on the web.
Claudius
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag
> von Kevin Turner
> Gesendet: Samstag, 27. November 2004 09:37
> An: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff: Re: List migration
>
>
> >it would mean the archives aren't Google searchable
>
> that's an important point, since it was via a google search
> that i came across the list in the first place...
>
> k
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Kelly" <mgekelly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 4:00 AM
> Subject: List migration
>
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > it seems that of all these responses, everyone is keen to keep the
> > list going. The only argument is where that should happen,
> but I think
> > it is pretty obvious that we should all migrate to the same place
> > since the usefulness of the list is more-or-less
> proportional to the
> > number of
> users.
> > I want to add my voice to the chorus against Yahoo!. I use Yahoo!
> > groups myself, but they have drawbacks, notably advertising
> getting in
> > the way, which we don't need to suffer since I am pretty
> convinced we
> > can get space on some other server. Also, it would mean the
> archives
> > aren't Google searchable, which they are at present - i.e. Google
> > searches about issues
> in
> > Foucault will yield answers originally posted to this list, which is
> great,
> > but will no longer happen if we go to Yahoo!.
> >
> > Mark Kelly
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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>
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