Re: no mailing list hits in google

On 2019-Aug-29, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> Maybe Google used to load the pages under /list/ and crawl them for links
> but just not include the actual pages in the index or something
> 
> I wonder if we can inject these into Google using a sitemap. I think that
> should work -- will need some investigation on exactly how to do it, as
> sitemaps also have individual restrictions on the number of urls per file,
> and we do have quite a few messages.
> 
> > Why is that /list/ exclusion there in the first place?
> 
> Because there are basically infinite number of pages in that space, due to
> the fact that you can pick an arbitrary point in time to view from.

Maybe we can create a new page that's specifically to be used by
crawlers, that lists all emails, each only once.  Say (unimaginatively)
/list_crawlers/2019-08/ containing links to all emails of all public
lists occurring during August 2019.

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