[kwlug-disc] Should kwlug-disc archives be private?

[Doug Moen]

For me, making the group inclusive is a more important goal than making
all of the discussions public.
A compromise alternative is to add a second mailing list, kwlug-private,
and auto-subscribe all members to both lists. Most people will continue
to use kwlug-disc as normal, but for the minority of cases where
somebody wants to create a non-public posting or discussion thread, kwlug-
private will be available for use.
Doug Moen.

On Fri, Dec 7, 2018, at 9:36 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> A few minutes of grepping through the logs of one of my sites ...
> 
> Drupal has this as part of the robots.txt:
> 
> Disallow: /comment/reply/
> 
> Despite that, the current log has the following bots still accessing
> these paths:> 
> SemRush, a bot for ads and backlinks, https://www.semrush.com/bot/
> Sogou - A Chinese crawler
> https://www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm#07> AlphaSEO Bot - +http://alphaseobot.com/bot.html
> 
> The point is: robots.txt is advisory in nature, not mandatory.
> 
> Back to the main point: many have voiced their objection to making the
> archives members only. So, is the consensus to tell those who want to
> join that this is the way it is, and if they don't want their messages
> to be public they should not join? Will this be our collective stance?> 
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