so it is not a good idea for an open source project, as I feared.

> On 13 Jan 2017, at 09:15, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> It eventually disappears , it keep the last 10.000 messages 
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> No it's not publicly visible   quite the contrary , Slack prioritize privacy 
> because it's meant to be used by teams working on commercial projects which 
> are the ones more likely to pay for a slack subscription. 
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> If you want to search as a teams's history you need to gain access as a guest 
> or a member , in both cases you will need an invite. So it makes little sense 
> for Slack to give Google Acess to its teams history.
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> If you as a team want to have unlimited messages then you will need to pay 
> for the Slack subscription. 
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> Of course none can stop us from creating a bot that will copy the messages to 
> an HTML website , that Google can search, hence lifting the 10k limit as 
> well. Or even better commit those messages to a github repo that can be 
> loaded as a project inside a Pharo image
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 at 10:05, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:
> so it is not publicly available/visible/indexable ?
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> so everything written there basically disappears ?
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> > On 13 Jan 2017, at 09:01, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Slack encrypts the message history and it only stores 10.000 messages
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> > You could use the Slack search feature
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> > https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/202528808-Search-for-messages-and-files
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> > On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 at 08:40, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:
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> > and slack is closed, right ?
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> > > On 13 Jan 2017, at 01:36, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Google already is capable on focusing on Pharo related websites.
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> > > The core of our documentation is located on 3 websites
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> > > World.st , this sites includes a forum website for all the Smalltalk 
> > > related mailing lists
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> > > Stackoverflow, Pharo has its own tag and a ton of answered questions
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> > > Github.com, here are located all the Pharo books
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> > > So to search all documentation about Spec on only these 3 websites you 
> > > use the following search query
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> > > pharo spec site:world.st OR site:stackoverflow.com OR site:github.com
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> > > There are other ways to customize a google search query , please look at 
> > > google search documentation
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> > > On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 at 11:38, Siemen Baader <siemenbaa...@gmail.com> 
> > > wrote:
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> > > Has anybody looked into SEO'ing any of the great documentation and 
> > > archived questions on the mailing list?
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> > > It strikes me that I often can't find the answer to questions I have on 
> > > Google, but they are often answered in material that I can find when I 
> > > look manually for some time or am pointed at it by an experienced member 
> > > of the community.
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> > > I also  miss Pharo - content on Stackoverflow, it is a very efficient way 
> > > to get past road blocks quickly.
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> > > Any thoughts or history to bring me up to speed with?
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> > > cheers,
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> > > Siemen
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