[LAF] FW: LAF emails appearing on google

[Ian Gregory]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:53:19PM +0000, Joy Wood wrote:

> Just for information, if you weren't already aware

Yes, it is good to remind people that this is an open list. Anybody can 
subscribe and there are currently 40 subscribers. The archive of past 
messages is publicly accessible. It doesn't make much sense to restrict 
archive access to subscribers because anyone can subscribe using a 
throwaway address (however, you do have to be subscribed to view the 
list of subscribers). Since the archive is publicly accessible then 
Google can see it, so messages will come up in Google searches.

This was how we originally agreed to operate the list. The list 
description is currently:

> This is a general email list for the London Anarchist Forum. LAF is an 
> informal non-sectarian left libertarian discussion group which meets 
> once a month at either Conway Hall or Freedom Press.

That is not strictly true because our meetings are not necessarily 
monthly or at those locations (we haven't used Conway Hall for a while 
now). I can update this if we can agree on a new text.

Ian