Re: [tlug] Open archives are bad?

["Uva Coder" <uva.coder@example.com>]

On 4/23/07, Dave M G <martin@example.com> wrote:

> That's an odd choice of words. "Dump"? Dumping implies movement, and
> there's no need to move the archives in any way. Nor change them. Nor
> rely on search engines for anything, since the existing functions of the
> archives would be left in place.

Yes, sites are crawled. Bad analogy I suppose. I claim poetic license
like I do with my punctuation and grammar. :) The takeway was external
processing vice taking ownership, blah, blah, blah. No reason to
expound really.

> Huh? What is there to expect? I doubt there would be any noticeable
> difference to anyone, really. Possibly minutely higher traffic, mostly
> from search engine bots. Every now and again someone out there might do
> a search and hit a TLUG archived posting and maybe find something
> useful. Or not. And in either case, would TLUG or its members notice or
> need to know?

It`s a mute point anyway. I could expound, but it wouldn`t change a
thing. Let`s move on.

> Which could be done anyway, without a switch to any other system.
> There's nothing stopping the TLUG powers that be from re-implementing
> the username/password requirement if they wanted to.

Precisely.

--Uva