[Imc-france-paris] [Listwork] IMC Ile de France proposal on searchability of mailing lists, was: [EN][FR] PROPOSAL: dealing with the imc-darwin list.

[Liste du collectif animant le CMI Paris / Île-de-F]

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Salut,

Remi's mailbox is stuffed, so I'm resending this email to the IMC
IdF/Paris mailing list. Sorry this is only in english, I've been awake
for a couple hours too much and don't feel like grabbing my dictionary
and translating this to french right now.

A bientot,
Alster

Alster wrote:
> Hi Remi,
> 
> remid at riseup.net wrote:
>> following the action taken by Alster to remove discussion list
>> archives (personal note: Darwin list) from search engines, the
>> imc-paris-île de france collective would like to note that we consider
>> this an excellent idea. We suggest that similar action be taken for
>> all discussion lists and that robots be banned from archiving them.
>> There is no need for these debates to be searchable on commercial
>> search engines such as google. If we wish to be able to perform
>> searches on discussion lists, we can develop/setup a tool for this
>> purpose.
> 
> I would really like to see an Indymedia-only search engine becoming
> available. This idea has been around and discussed for a long time.
> Tehre were also some attempts to set something up, however, to my
> knowledge, none of them ever reached production grade.
> 
> In this respect, it's also noteworthy there there have been discussions
> to change the mailing list archiving tool to "lurker". Please search the
> listwork mailing list archives for more information (using commercial
> search engine I guess ;-) ).
> 
> I'm not sure I'd want to ask commercial search engines which provide
> public access to their indexes to stop indexing Indymedia content, as I
> think Indymedia is not only of interest to Indymedia. For sure, I'd
> dislike this to happen before a working alternative has been put in
> place. This said, if IMC IdF is able to provide a working alternative
> then this would be awesome.
> 
> But, really, I think the listwork mailing list is the wrong place to
> discuss this. If IMC IdF intends to have this decided formally, then I
> guess the right place to make such a decision is IMC Process, possibly
> after previous discussion on IMC Communication where (I suggest) both
> non-technical and technical considerations should be made. I'm fine with
> the above points being forwarded there if you feel like it.
> 
> Alster

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