On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:30:51AM +0000, Kake L Pugh wrote:
On Thu 17 Dec 2009, Dominic Hargreaves dom@earth.li wrote:
[snip many other useful bits of reply from you]
But should we take it down altogether? I don't feel able to; as custodians of community provided data we should try and keep it relevant and useful, but if we can't do that shouldn't we at least retain it so that the useful parts are still accessible?
I have trouble finding any useful parts in it, to be honest.
I do get your point about community-provided data - it _is_ generally somewhat unethical to solicit data from people, give them the impression that their data is safe, and then remove their access to it - but the reason I brought this up at the time when I did bring it up is that I'm not sure there's anyone left who actually cares about OGL's data.
I'm starting to agree. And no-one on the OGL list replied when I dropped the hint about getting rid of it at
http://lists.openguides.org/pipermail/openguides-london/2010-January/000536....
so I will implement the read-only bit as soon as I get a round tuit (if someone reading this fancies a little coding, then a patch to OpenGuides to disable all the writable features would be great :)
I'll probably also put robot meta tags to stop indexing.
Then if noone has popped up a few months after that I'll think about taking the whole thing down.
Cheers, Dominic.