On 11 Jul 2005 at 23:59, Darcy James Argue wrote: > On 11 Jul 2005, at 10:20 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: > > > At 09:15 PM 7/11/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: > > >http://www.opensubscriber.com/messages/finale@shsu.edu/416.html > > > > > >Isn't there something illegal or unethical about this? > > > > There's some other message archive subscribed as well. Frankly, as > > long as SHSU isn't providing a proper searchable archive of their > > own, I see this as a good thing. > > I'm with Aaron. I really don't care if my email address is available > for anyone to see in the Google cache, but I DO care about having > searchable archives, and since we de-linked from Google, that's > impossible. > > Here is a solution which fixes the problem we had with Google (the > emails are erased) and provides an enormously useful service that we > would not otherwise get -- searchable archives. Doesn't anyone else > want searchable archives?
The archives of this mailing list get stale very quickly, much moreso than about any technical forum I've ever seen (perhaps because of the frequent upgrade cycle?). I've never once wanted to search them. > I don't get the privacy concerns. How is this worse than the Google > archives? The only problem anyone had with Google indexing the list > is that the email addresses were not erased. So what's the big deal > about a searchable index that *does* erase email addresses? The reason is that *that* archive was maintained by the owner of the list. It's a *huge* difference. My concerns have *zilch* to do with the email address issue -- it's all about permission, copyright and context. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
