Hi RTF, Thanks for your polite and reasonable request!
On 20/06/17 09:35, robots.txt fan wrote: > Dear Sirs and Madams, > > I would like to thank all of you for doing this. You are a necessary > pillar to PGP and it is awesome that you are there to provide the > infrastructure to host everyone's key. > > Without attempting to diminish the previous sentence, I have a request > to make to some of you. > > Most of the SKS serve an efficient robots.txt that prevents everyone's > un-deletable name and email showing up on search engines. It seems this is the default behaviour, at least when instaled from the debian package. It's always useful to hear from a real PGP user for whom this is a real concern. > However, there > are some exceptions. I like to keep a low profile, but when searching > for my name, for example on Google, a significant amount of results are > from SKS pages, or to be more specific, these: > > keyserver.nausch.org > pgp.net.nz > pgp.circl.lu > keyserver.rayservers.com > sks-keyservers.net > keyserver.mattrude.com (special case: blocks /pks, but not /search, a > non-standard (?) directory) > > I would like to ask the owners of these pages to take the time to > install an efficient robots.txt file, for example something like this: > > User-agent: * > Disallow: /pks/ > > To all others, I would like to ask you to take the time to check if your > server serves an efficient robots.txt file, and if it does not, to > please install one. > > If there is any doubt that a robots.txt file is a good idea, I can > elaborate on that. > > Thank you for your time. > > RTF > My personal priority for the PGP ecosystem is to ensure a pleasant, unsurprising and privacy respecting experience for all PGP users. Since you've taken the time to email this list, I assume this is a reasonably serious issue for you. We should all be worried about anything that negatively affects the overall experience of using PGP. I also support your right to use PGP without publishing your public key. It's not uncommon for users to have both published and non-published keys, and we're here to support PGP users, so I'm behind you. Probably too late now, but you might consider omitting your name entirely on your key - it's optional. You don't even need an email address, although that makes life a little tricky for your contacts ;) Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Sks-devel mailing list > Sks-devel@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/sks-devel >
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