From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19174 invoked by alias); 10 Nov 2010 07:16:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 19166 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Nov 2010 07:16:54 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from virtual.bogons.net (HELO virtual.bogons.net) (193.178.223.136) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:16:50 +0000 Received: from jifvik.dyndns.org (jifvik.dyndns.org [85.158.45.40]) by virtual.bogons.net (8.10.2+Sun/8.11.2) with ESMTP id oAA7GlW15424 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:16:47 GMT Received: from [192.168.7.9] (unknown [78.32.57.111]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by jifvik.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B393FE1 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:16:46 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4CDA46DC.50709@jifvik.org> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:16:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 Fedora/3.0.10-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: overseers@sourceware.org Subject: sourceware on search engines Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-q4/txt/msg00033.txt.bz2 I'm sure someone must have provided some rationale at some point which I missed, but why aren't the sourceware web pages (particularly the mailing list archives) indexed by search engines? Relying on sourceware's internal search only seems very limiting. If it's a general site-wide principle, can I opt my project out so that it can be indexed? Jifl -- --["No sense being pessimistic, it wouldn't work anyway"]-- Opinions==mine