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Timely FAQs:
Google's Crawler & SERPs:
1) We very rarely see precise overlap between us and other original sites in SERPs. While the top level domains are both displayed the actual linked content pages differ. What we see, having been operating for quite a while (2001!), is that google's crawler is finite. It has never crawled more than half of what we have & assume that's going to go for everyone else with sizeable new content creation. Hence different found & displayed links.
Some find we 'rank' higher in SERPs than the originating site… like google groups, but if you examine it closer it is rarely for the same result. That's what we find anyway. Again we see finite & differing crawler resources as the fact of search life.
2) For some reason, we suspect low SEO efforts & high render speed, when Google does point to us it is what the searcher is looking for. Google indicates this is what is good for them and for searchers. So that seems to work well for everyone - if point #1 holds true.
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- What is this site?
The purpose of our mailling list archive is to preserve the vast knowledge contained in mailing lists. A lot of problem solving happens in people's inboxes.
- Why did you start doing this?
One day I realized how many of my personal computing problems were solved by the various mailing lists in existance.
It hit me:
1) In web form a lot of people won't have to ask the same question repeatedly. The question you have has been answered here somewhere.
2) It would be a terrible shame to not preserve this info.
3) Many archives are operated by hobbyists or as afterthoughts... they disappear. We're a 'going conern' & have been online since 2001.
- Is your site MFA?
No, but it helps cover the costs of running a lot of servers.. a LOT of servers.
- Will you archive my mailing list?
Maybe. ping us
- Can you remove
my name from some old embarrassing posts?
No problem. We're in the business of preserving knowledge not your personal embarrasments. However; we absolutely
need your name as it appears and what URLS you've seen it in. We'll also do a general search to weed it out on a
per list basis.
Please be patient.
- There's some spam in your lists dude!
Yeah, spammers are the scourge of the earth. Send us the URL, please. Note, out
bound URLs within messages are "nofollow"'ed
- Who runs this site?
