personally I see this only as a good thing. We have an open and transparent community, with open mailing list archives and a culture of blogging, tweeting, denting stuff that we do that is interesting. I see IRC as an extension of the mailing lists, just more realtime interactive short messages and conversations than asynchronous long messages. I frequently refer to the logs of our loco channel (For example I once had a kernel issue and traced it to a package I had installed, then checked back in the logs for that timestamp and discovered what I was trying to do at the time.) and logs of the meeting channels and other Ubuntu channels. Having loco channels logged as a general rule seems like a beneficial thing to me.
I can understand concerns about having the logs indexed on search engines and I have previously verified that it would be possible to have a robots.txt file with wildcards in it so you could put entries such as http://logs.ubuntu-eu.org/freenode/*/*/*/%23ubuntu-myloco.html to block spiders from the logs for all days for that particular channel if there was one that didn't want to be indexed. This format is respected by Google at least and probably other search engines, but robots.txt can be ignored and isn't a security mechanism as such. Alan. -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Web: http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com Mob: +44 (0)7738 789195 Tel: +44 (0)844 3576000 The Open Learning Centre is a trading name of Bell Lord Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales #05868943. VAT Registration #GB 901 4715 55 -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
