[MF3D.FORUM:522] Re: Searchable archives

[Marco Pauck <pauck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Talbot wrote:
> Bill's recent request for help on matching FLs of his
> Mamiya lenses reminded me how nice it would be to have
> searchable archives of this forum.  Recent new member
> Marco Pauck has offered to add the archives of this
> list to his searchable archives at:
> http://www.pauck.de/archive/mailinglist/mailinglist.html
> 
> I plan to take Marco up on his offer (assuming you still
> have room, Marco!) now that his archive software masks
> posters' e-mail addresses.  I will be making available
> to him all the message digests from the time the list
> moved off Joel's rkymtmem-3d account at frii.  I will
> also ask Joel to approve putting the frii list messages
> into Marco's archive.
> 
> If anyone wants their messages to be excluded from the
> archives, we will have to comply with their wishes, as
> there was no archive when everyone orignially signed up.
> I hope no one wishes to be excluded, but if you do please
> let us know asap.

I would be happy to host the list's archive. Disk space
is plenty and the signal/noise ratio of the list is very
good (compared to e.g. photo-3d ;-) making archiving
quite sensible.

Just let me clarify the archive's privacy politics:
- The archive will be public and will be indexed by
  search engines.
- All email addresses will be anonymized by masking the
  domain part in order to prevent address harvesting for
  spamming.
- Messages with the header "X-no-archive: yes" will not
  be archived.
- If requested, older messages may be excluded from the
  archive.

Hope, that's ok for you. The competent contributions from
all of you deserve a little permanence ... ;-)

	Marco
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