At 06:52 PM 7/29/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following: >Sorry, but Google DOES index email list archives or I >wouldn't have made the statement. I (or many others) can go >to google and search for a certain one of my email addresses >and the archives of the email list that it is subscribed to >WILL show up in the results. Also, one does not have to be >a member in order to search archives for certain email lists. >It might be that way with PCworks, but not for all.
I guess I'm having a hard time explaining this circular logic. If somebody already knows your e-mail address and they type it into Google then Google will find web pages associated with that address. However, if somebody is looking for addresses to send spam to then I doubt they will go to the mail-archive, select a mailing list that is archived there and then start reading web page after web page trying to learn or get e-mail addresses. If a mailing list is not archived at mail archive then it is more difficult to search the archives of the list because you need to join the list in order to search the archives. This can also be changed if the list is an LISTSERV list and the web interface is activated. However, not all LISTSERV lists have a web interface. Likewise, Majordomo mailing lists may have a web interface but most don't. If the list is a web-based list like Yahoo groups then the same applies whether the list is closed or public. It is just too much work to try to harvest e-mail addresses from mailing lists, when USENET provides such a broad base of them. Examples: A search of Google on [EMAIL PROTECTED] turns up a measly 282 hits 2 of which are the mail-archive. Hardly representative of the volume of postings I have done on this list, Help-Net or the Accmail list. If I type "Gerald E. Boyd" (with quotes) into Google I see some 820 hits. Again the same 2 mail-archive hits appear. Most of the others are all web pages. However, if I use Google groups advanced search and search on author is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get about 104 hits. Using my name retrieves about 1800 hits. So even though I have answered in excess of 8000 questions on Help-Net, Accmail and Pcworks, the bulk of my addresses are found in USENET and web pages, not mailing lists archives found on the web. -- Gerry Boyd ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
