[TAG] found something in the attic...

[Jason Creighton]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:40:31AM -0500, Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 05:02:12PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> > Quoting Peter Knaggs (peter.knaggs at gmail.com):
> > 
> > > I was wondering if part of the reason for less
> > > participation in the LG mailing list itself
> > > was due to it being written in a way that
> > > would tend to make it less google-icious i.e.
> > > it's more of a free flowing discussion. But
> > > I guess it's just because the TAG list
> > > archives aren't public so google doesn't
> > > index them.
> > 
> > Et voila.  I would actually recommend making the archive of tag@ public,
> > for that reason and others.  I'm well aware of the reasons this hasn't
> > been done historically:  I just don't think those reasons are
> > sufficient.
> > 
> > (Not that you asked.  ;->  )
> 
> Could you possibly recap those reasons for me, Rick? I can't think of
> anything off the top of my head; unless I'm missing something critically
> important, TAG archives should definitely be made public.

Well, probably not "critically important", but something to think about:
Lots of posts start with "Not for publication". How would we handle
that?

Jason Creighton