[kwlug-disc] Should kwlug-disc archives be private?

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 2:45 PM Andrew Sullivan Cant <
acant at alumni.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> I have not done any robots.txt or SEO stuff recently, so I do not know
> how respectful the current crop of search engines are.
>

The robots.txt is useless. Current crawlers do not not respect it.

But that being said, would updating our robots.txt to disallow the
> search engines be useful?
>

It is not something one can rely on.

We could note that in the mailing list page, but also state more clearly
> that the archives are publicly accessible.
>
> I do appreciate that there is a difference between publishing things and
> publishing and promoting them. (e.g., someone's address being published
> somewhere online vs doxxing them to a specific group)


Stating my position again:

1. The public archives are not that useful, since the results do not show
up in popular search engines.

2. People do not like searching on their name and finding out emails they
sent. This is a turnoff for some, and a barrier to being on the mailing
list.

So, here is another approach: can the archives be searchable by members of
the mailing list? If so, this covers the use cases of those who want to
find something that was discussed a while ago, ..etc. while preventing
names, email addresses, and discussions from being public to everyone.

Would that compromise satisfy both sides?
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