Date   : Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:40:10 +0000
From   : Rob <robert@...>
Subject: Re: Mailing List Archive Downtime

At 19:37 22/11/2005, Jon Ripley wrote:


>I don't believe that Google has reindexed the site since before February 
>2005. At that time the archive was altered to sort messages by posting 
>time in GMT to resolve issues where some messages were appearing out of 
>chronological order when posters were in different time zones.
>
>I'd really like Google to reindex the site to correct the problem but 
>cannot really prompt them to do so.

you can, sort of ...

First get them to delete the old pages,
http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html

And this page gives some hints on getting them to update outdated information
http://www.google.com/webmasters/3.html
The google sitemaps option looks particularly interesting; I really must 
investigate it myself one day ...

Rob.