[H-GEN] Searching List Archives (and DHCP)
Sandra Milne
silne at optusnet.com.au
Wed May 21 02:20:36 EDT 2003
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Raymond Smith wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 06:40:59AM +1000, Sandra Milne wrote:
>>Do the list archives actually exist? Are they actually searchable from
>>google?
> Yes http://archive.humbug.org.au. No -- the robots.txt file disallows
> all spiders.
OK then, so why does the search function lead to a google search?! If
it's not possible to do it that way, why is it set up to do it that way?
Why not just say "you cannot search the archive" or "search currently
unavailable" etc....
Sandra.
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