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Re: Discontinuing the mhonarc archives January 14

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Tue, 08 January 2019 19:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: Discontinuing the mhonarc archives January 14
To: Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com>
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From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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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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