We are talking about the fact that they are no longer on Google, except for the posts from 11/.01 on
Marco's hard drive got hosed. While the archives were down, Google couldn't update them. To Google's searchbots, the archives prior to 11/01 do not exist.
The archives do exist, google just doesn't recognize the existence of archives prior to 11/01 yet. In fact, check this out. We bought some sites a month ago. Infowarconc.com, winnshwartau.com. Neither one have been picked up by google's bots yet.
Check it out:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=iso-8859-1&oe=iso-8859-1&q=site%3ainfowarcon.com+interpact
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=iso-8859-1&oe=iso-8859-1&q=site%3awinnschwartau.com+interpact
Both of thesesites exist and my boss's wife has put files on them. But Google doesn't think they exist yet. In order to recognize them, they search by how many sites have linked to the site. They do this with "robots" which search the Internet. They are automated.
Www.winnschwartua.com and www.infowarconc.com these sites exist. They are not on google.
But don't you worry, they will come up again in the future. It will just be a slow process until the bots come back and scan the site and pick up the links.
And, at that point, marco will obscure our email addresses so we don't get spammed and don't have to deal with crap from employers and clients. Yadda.
At 11:42 AM 3/15/02 -0600, Carrol Cox wrote:
>One doesn't even need a URL. Type lbo-talk into google, then click on
>the very first hit in the list. That gives you a screen with the
>following at the bottom:
>
>An archive of the list has just opened for business _here_.
>
>Click _here_ and you get a screen with the following:
>
>This is the _archive_ for the email discussion list, lbo-talk>. For info
>on the list - the meaning of its life, and how to subscribe - click
>here.
>
>This archive wouldn't exist without the help of _Marco Anglesio_, who
>coded it and whose computer is hosting it.
>
>Click on Marco and you get his home page. Click on Archive and there you
>are. All the months are listed, and it's easy enough to click and see if
>a given month is back yet.
>
>It's a pretty open secret that lbo-talk is archived and the archives are
>reachable. There was a brief on-list discussion a couple months ago of
>why they were slow in reappearing, and I don't think anyone has
>complained since.
>
>Carrol