Re: [tlug] Open archives are bad?

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

Uva, Stephen,

Thank you both for your comments.

Uva, I've been trying to wrap my head around where you're coming 
from, and it just seems like we're on different wavelengths.

Correct me if I'm misreading you, but it seems that you feel the TLUG 
archives need to be somehow better before they should be made  more 
publicly accessible. In a way, it's like you're saying they don't 
deserve to be more accessible because of a lack of focus, quality, or 
relevance.

But I just can't see how the TLUG archives are any worse than anyone 
else's archives. Every list has trolls, irrelevant discussions, and 
other noise. Every list has a unique kind of character that is the sum 
total of all the good and bad contributions of all its members. But 
nonetheless, without even putting much thought into it, a Google search 
will basically side step the noise and pull out those bits of data that 
can help a person.

So the bottom line as I see it is that at worst, maybe no non-TLUG 
member will find anything of use in the archives. At best, someone, 
somewhere, may be helped. No downside, maybe some upside.

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Dave M G
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