[PD] What's up with the mailing list archives and/or Google????

[Roman Haefeli]

On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 10:17 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> On 2010-06-30 00:15, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > I noticed the problem as well. I guess what happens is that the message
> > numbering has changed for some reason. Probably the last time google was
> > crawling 
> > http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2009-06/070918.html it
> > actually still contained the post about Blank Pages.
> > 
> > Don't know how mailman works internally, but probably the message-IDs
> > are not persistent (when you move archives around or delete some
> > messages? I don't know).
> 
> due to the recent outage of the mailing list archives, i had to rebuilt
> the list archives which eventually renumbered the pages.
> i'm aware of the problem, but don't have any solution ready at hand.
> (what's worse, if the same thing happens again, i don't know of any
> simple solution to rebuild the archives without renumbering again)
> 
> i don't even know exactly why the archiver renumbers differently every
> time i rebuild. i guess it has to do with wrong sender times in the
> mail-headers.
> 
> anyhow, the google search index will of course re-adapt itself within
> reasonable time.
> the namazu index will have to be rebuild manually.
> 
> sorry for the inconvenience.

No problem for me. 

** Many thanks ** for going through the trouble of hosting the mailing
list.

Roman