Paul wrote: >>> I'm passing this request along without comment as to its legitimacy.
Thanks so much for forwarding it, Paul! Janet from darraslaw.com wrote: >> I recently received notice from Google that my >> website has been assessed a penalty after >> they detected unnatural links pointing to my website, darraslaw.com... >> links from your website, trac.haskell.org ... >> I need your help getting these links removed... >> here are the pages on your site... >> >> [list of trac tickets elided] >> >> Failure to remove these links will require me to >> file a Disavow Links report with Google. >> My concern is that if I have to submit your site >> in this report, Google may flag your site as >> spammy or otherwise not in compliance with >> their guidelines. The last thing I want is to have >> another webmaster go through this grief! Vo Minh Thu wrote: > FWIW this seems legit. I removed those Trac tickets. http://rt.haskell.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=1823 But this is a growing problem. It is the second such request I have dealt with. I suspect we will be getting more and more, and that in some cases they will just report us rather than taking the trouble to formulate a useful link removal request. That would impact at least the searchability of Trac pages, but possibly also the entire haskell.org domain. Lately I have been the only person giving any attention to c.h.o. maintenance, at least w.r.t. RT tickets. I frankly do not deal at all with Trac, since I don't have time to learn it. I found out how to delete Trac tickets in a semi-automated way using the trac-admin command line facility, but that's about all I know. Dealing with Trac spam is a much bigger topic about which I know nothing. Unless there is someone who can take on Trac maintenance in a more serious way, I'm afraid we have no choice but to shut down Trac service on c.h.o. Does anyone know how to figure out which projects are still actually using Trac on c.h.o. and are not just spam honey pots? Not too many, probably, but there may be a few important ones. We would need to give them some warning before pulling the plug. Thanks, Yitz _______________________________________________ haskell-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://community.galois.com/mailman/listinfo/haskell-infrastructure
