On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] wrote: > > Dear Jimmy Wales, > > > > Could you ask those in charge to make the wikimedia.org mailing lists > > searchable again? > > > > There may be good reasons why they aren't, > > > > but of course one cannot find them, > > > > because they are not searchable! > > > > Thanks. > > The reason were people posting private data to the mailing list, then > annoying sysadmins to remove then when finding about them on Google. > > False. The reason is that people can post entirely reasonable things on these lists and employers can then be hyper-discriminative about their personal interests and choose not to hire them, or to fire them. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
