[44228] in Cypherpunks
Re: META: Lycos & Searchable archives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca)
Thu Nov 30 06:24:33 1995
From: s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 06:28:15 -0500 (EST)
To: Leslie Todd Masco <cactus@hks.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199511300556.AAA15009@bb.hks.net>
On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Leslie Todd Masco wrote:
> Someone has expressed concern to me that the cypherpunks archives are
> searchable via Lycos. Said person doesn't mind having the archives
> searchable to the smaller audience of people who go to the we-site,
> but is unhappy about net-wide searches turning up cypherpunks articles.
Lycos only has a database of abstracts of the archive (which is still
commendable) and the other databases have smallish local archives of the list.
There's no way to do a compleat search at present (other than manual labor and
writing 'bots). A true search engine at the site would be a godsend.
I presume that people who post want their posts read.
