Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] robots.txt disallows all spiders for mailing lists

[Yavor Doganov]

Noah Slater wrote:
> Sylvain, Karl, thoughts?

Sylvain and Karl are not GNU sysadmins, so they have little to do
here, except expressing an opinion.

> > the GNU project does not have a mission to make their life easier
> 
> You have the wrong framing, this is about making it easy for users.

In the long term, I don't think that making an archive Google-friendly
is a good goal.  But that's just me, I was expressing personal
opinion.

> And you expect all users of GNU software to do the same?

No.  I expect that users of GNU software read the supplementary
documentation, which saves the trouble to resort to a mailing list in
99% of the cases, except when a genuine bug is discovered, or a
bizzare but valid use case is being brought in.