El Miércoles 02 Sep 2009 23:30:27 Maureen Vilar escribió:
> Kunsheng took his Anansi project website down several hours ago.

No he didn't. I used a "forkbomb" and hanged the server. Whoops.

> But if he 
> brings Anansi back online before changing its address the links in Mark and
> Nicolás's emails could again become live.

Too bad...? If he cares about security he shouldn't allow outside access for 
whatever time it takes to make the server secure.

> These boinc list emails are archived and crawled by the Google and Baidu
> bots. The content shows up in web searches. The crawlers must not in my
> opinion be allowed to find these emails in case the links by
> mischance become live again.
>
> Is someone able to delete this entire email conversation and in addition
> the post by Kunsheng that Mark was replying to?

No, that's impossible. It's already in many online mailing list archives. They 
don't crawl, they subscribe to the list and get messages immediately after 
they are posted.

http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/pipermail/boinc_dev/2009-September/014953.html
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.distributed.boinc.devel/1466
http://www.mail-archive.com/boinc_dev%40ssl.berkeley.edu/msg01437.html
http://www.archivum.info/boinc_dev%40ssl.berkeley.edu/2009-09/00008/%5Bboinc_dev%5D_About_Posting_my_BOINC_project_to_the_public

Security by obscurity doesn't work anyway.

-- 
Nicolas
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