I think Jisc Mailing List archives have become accessible to search engines in the Summer 2010. Can you conform this? It would be interesting to know what this has meant for JISC in terms of increased participation to public debates or the like.
I believe that open and public archives of mailing lists are a valuable resource but it is also true they contain a lot of truly ephemeral data. Unfortunately these data are easily accessible to crawlers (and other non-human! data processors).
So there is an immense amount of obsolete personal details (and also misleading out of the original context of an email thread or conversation), that risk to be abused and to compromise the whole reliability of the information one may legitimately gather through the tool. The same could be said about data collated from Facebook and other social networking sites, with the aggravated problem of an increased level of false personal information.
I think I made an observation about the benefits of participation to open mailing lists following the analysis of Jisc Mailing Lists I shared in 2010 - while I was volunteering for a Cilip special interest group. Due to disruptions occurred to my websites in 2011-2012, I am sorry to say the document is not available anymore online, but I have planned to republish it sooner or later in a section of my website called 'Past Projects'. Hopefully the word 'past' should advice people that... there is no time like the present :)
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