Anyone care to explain the extreme concern about the searchable archive
that just appeared?
Is the issue:
a.)Use of propriatary data which belongs to the list owner once we
contribute it. ie. marketable $$$ information.
b) Protecting us against others extracting the email address for spam
purposes.
c) Ruffled Pride ....It wasn't invented here.
d) other
This is not intended to be an inflamatory comment. A rational
explaination is desired. The idea of searchable content seems
appropriate, useful and an improvement to me. If spam is the
impediment, how could a searchable database be created to provide some
protection against the problem. Digging through large files manually is
a dying art, given the direction technology continues to take.
My opinion is that the attempt to establish searchable content addressed
a problem and added capability that further increased the value of this
forum. I would hate to see it buried out of fear for another problem,
specially by a group of problem solvers.
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