Hello Jonathan,

Monday, December 1, 2003, 12:27:59 PM, you wrote:
JA> The archives are publicly available via a website... All it takes
JA> is a 'spider' or web crawler to hit the list archive page, and
JA> it'll index everything on it. I don't believe the list moderators
JA> manage the archives, it's done by another bunch of people. There
JA> is little the moderators can do about it, and you're likely to
JA> find, even the changes they could make are often ignored by most
JA> indexing spiders.


Further, while the admonition is there (sigh, the whole
personal/private vs. public admonition debate again), you're private
details such as e-mail address and such are not provided by the
archives pages. Even if you explicitly type your e-mail address in the
message, the archive software replaces anything that looks like an
e-mail address with the below:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

We have archives because people asked for and asked for again to have
them.

We can please some of the people some of the time but no-one can
please all the people all the time. Sorry.



-- 
Leif (TB list moderator and fellow end user).

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Build 2195 Service Pack 3 on a Pentium 4 2GHz with 512MB


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