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Re: Discontinuing the mhonarc archives January 14

Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> Thu, 10 January 2019 15:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: Discontinuing the mhonarc archives January 14
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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From: Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com>
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Thanks for the nudge, Nick. Some conversations started before the end of 
the year had not run to conclusion.

The robots.txt file has been changed, and some things put in place to 
help the spiders find all the messages.

RjS

On 1/8/19 1:59 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> Robert Sparks wrote on 08/01/2019 19:49:
>> We will be discontinuing Mhonarc during the day on Monday Jan 14.
>>
>> As noted below, all existing Mhonarc URLs will redirect to the same 
>> message in mailarch.
>>
>> The mbox files available through rsync will continue to be available.
>
> Robert,
>
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/robots.txt includes "Disallow: /", which 
> means that the entire mailarch repository is unavailable on regular 
> search engines.
>
> This was reported in ietfdb ticket 2658.
>
> Are there plans to fix this before mhonarc is discontinued?  It would 
> be hugely regressive for ietf mailing lists to be cut off from regular 
> internet searches.
>
> Nick
>

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