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mailing list archive F.A.Q. -since 2001!

    Timely FAQs:

    There are too many list archives. They're annoying.

    Many have popped up since about 2009. We've been here since 2000!

    We got a lot of love until the clones showed up. When they die off the love will return.

    When/IF, mostly when, google kills off Groups (not a clone) our archives will be pretty damn awesome.

    Scraping?

    No. Everything comes in via actual mailing list msgs & is then processed into html.
    Most lists have requested we archive them. We do honor X-No-Archive headers!

    You suck. StackOverflow Rules!

    We dig the Stack too, but maybe you'd be surprised how many answers there link to questions answered here already. Just sayin'.

    Google's Crawler & Dupes in SERPs

    1) We very rarely see precise overlap between us and other sites in SERPs. While the top level domains are both displayed the actual linked content pages differ. What we see, having been operating for quite a while (2000!), is that google's crawler is finite. It has never crawled more than half of what we have & assume that's going to go for everyone else with sizeable new content creation. Hence different found & displayed links.

    Some find we 'rank' higher in SERPs than the originating site… like google groups, but if you examine it closer it is rarely for the same result. That's what we find anyway. Again we see finite & differing crawler resources as the fact of search life.

    2) For some reason, we suspect low SEO efforts & high render speed, when Google does point to us it is what the searcher is looking for. Google indicates this is what is good for them and for searchers. So that seems to work well for everyone - if point #1 holds true.

    SEO, Blackhat, nonsense

    Have you seen our pages??? o_0

    Is your site MFA?

    No, We're pre adsense (2000)... but it helps cover the costs of running a lot of servers.. a LOT of servers.



    Regular FAQs:

  • What is this site?

    The purpose of our mailling list archive is to preserve the vast knowledge contained in mailing lists. A lot of problem solving happens in people's inboxes.

  • Why did you start doing this?

    One day I realized how many of my personal computing problems were solved by the various mailing lists in existance. It hit me:

    1) In web form a lot of people won't have to ask the same question repeatedly. The question you have has been answered here somewhere.
    2) It would be a terrible shame to not preserve this info.
    3) Many archives are operated by hobbyists or as afterthoughts... they disappear. Even Google Kills Off non-profitable products (GROUPS?!?!?). We're a 'going conern' & have been online since 2000.

  • Will you archive my mailing list?

    Maybe. ping us

  • Can you remove my name from some old embarrassing posts?

    No problem. We're in the business of preserving knowledge not your personal embarrasments. However; we absolutely need your name as it appears and what URLS you've seen it in. We'll also do a general search to weed it out on a per list basis.

    Please be patient.

  • There's some spam in your lists dude!

    Yeah, spammers are the scourge of the earth. Send us the URL, please. Note, out bound URLs within messages are "nofollow"'ed

  • Need to send a Threatening Letter/EMail?

    • No need to be rude... we're more than happy to remove something if it is causing you problems.

    Please note this is an archive of PUBLICLY posted mailinglist messages... it was public BEFORE we got it.

    That said, send away: steve at osdir dot com to admin, DMCA agent & remover Steve Mallett.

  • Who runs this site?

    Steve

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