ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: [endurance] Distribution of email comments.

Re: [endurance] Distribution of email comments.

Linda B. Merims (lbm@ici.net)
Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:33:21 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Roger Garlitz wrote:

> I just did a search using Lycos a web search program...
>
> Much to my suprise there was a listing of email messages to the endurance
> email list...
>
> Did I miss this message somewhere. Does everyone know that their posts are
> being cataloged and sent to a web search index? How extensive is this? I
> was very suprised to find this out. Is it a function of the list or is a
> member of the list passing these comments on to another source?

The entire endurance@moscow.com list is archived at the web site:

http://www.endurance.net/archive/past

That is where Lycos (and every other Web indexer) is finding them.
It is a very valuable, very interesting resource.

Also disturbing to some is that all USENET traffic is now ending
up permanently recorded at sites such as DejaNews.

Linda B. Merims
lbm@ici.net
Massachusetts, USA