On Thu, 6 May 2004, Stephen C. Nill wrote:

> Addendum....
>
> I was asked off list how I have determined that only public archives are
> captured by Google.  Try this:
>
> Google "Stephen C. Nill LSTOWN"  -- you won't get any of my postings to
> LSTOWN, even though I have posted here over the years.  Now, Google
> "Stephen C. Nill ACCOUNTABILITY" -- you will get my postings to one of our
> lists, ACCOUNTABILITY.

But LSTOWN is a public archive.  I've never been asked for my
subscription when I've accessed it via the web.  So that can't be the
difference.

It would make sense that Google's bots can access public archives, but
not private archives, but this is no evidence for that.

Dennis

>
> I haven't done a lot of experimenting, so if anyone finds that I'm wrong
> based on other experimenting, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
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