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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<B> </B>Matt
Campbell</FONT></DIV>
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involved in writing a robot to strip out the headers for all the messages in
our archive? That way it would be less invasive to have everything
available through Google.</SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV dir=ltr>it is not a robot on our side, but rather instructions to
/Google's/ robot (or Yahoo's, Altavista's, or any of the gazillion search
engines out there) Basically, it is a simple text file that lists the
directories that are "off limits" to web-spiders or "robots". It is placed
in a known/common location, and all "robots" are /supposed/ to abide by
it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=445310902-26032008><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000ff>As
far as "should our e-mail archive be indexed by the big guys?", I know there are
campers on both sides of this issue, and I'm generally on the "pro" indexing
side of the fence for a simple reason (or two) -- if someone solves a
particularly involved Linux problem on the list, the next person with that
same or similar problem WON'T find the answer if they aren't a member
of our group/list (and even if they are, they have to THINK about searching our
archives in the first place)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=445310902-26032008><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000ff>(the
secondary reason is that it increases exposure of our group in particular --
take your case as a prime example: if you found a suitable solution to your hard
drive problems solely by searching "the net" and finding our archive AND seeing
that we were "local", chances are you would consider stopping in for a meeting
or two, right?)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=445310902-26032008><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000ff>On
the "anti" side are folks worried about how they may appear to the rest of the
world should one of their sgvlug posts appear in wider circulation than just
this list (ummm... "shouldn't have posted it in the first place" is usually the
counter argument, but even really good things can be taken "out of context"
and seem rather disparaging...)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=445310902-26032008><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000ff>Then
there are a few that actively protect their anonymity (sp?) while online, and a
global (or even local) index kind of defeats that purpose (for that, there
is the "x-no-archive" header you can apply to your e-mail client -- instructions
for such are on our site -- but that doesn't stop manual archiving by packrats
like me ;) )</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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