BLU archives

[bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)]

Tom,

Please don't. The discuss archive has so many of my "private" email 
addresses in it that I'd have to go into the Internet witness protection 
program if Google gets to it. Let's leave the archive un-indexed.

FWIW. YMMV.

Bill Horne

Tom Metro wrote:

> I just tried looking something up in the BLU (discuss list) archives:
>
> http://olduvai.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/
>
> and noticed we don't have a search engine. These days Google is the 
> quick answer to that problem, but Google seems to have a very limited 
> index of olduvai.blu.org. For example, a search that should have 
> turned up a few hundred posts in the entire archive, or even several 
> from January, only turned up one from the January archive.
>
> Are there steps we can take to get Google to spider the site? Are 
> there any robot rules preventing Google from spidering the site?
>
> Are there any other list archiving services that archive BLU discuss? 
> (Usually they turn up in a Google search, but I found none on the web 
> or in groups.) If not, maybe we should start using one as a secondary 
> archive.
>
> We could always change the archiving software to one that provides a 
> search feature, but that's probably more work than getting Google to 
> work.
>
>  -Tom
>


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