-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Om 23:33 op maandag 1 december 2003, Peter Hillier-Brook:
JA>> The archives are publicly available via a website... All it takes is JA>> a 'spider' or web crawler to hit the list archive page, and it'll JA>> index everything on it. I don't believe the list moderators manage JA>> the archives, it's done by another bunch of people. There is little JA>> the moderators can do about it, and you're likely to find, even the JA>> changes they could make are often ignored by most indexing spiders. > I have no problem with the archives being available via the Web, however > I don't think a "robots.txt" file would be too difficult to implement (I > could offer some help if necessary). There is no obvious reason why > spiders should be encouraged to crawl the archive site! i'm sorry, but i beg to differ. i can sum up countless configuration and other problems that i have solved by putting some obvious keywords into google, ending up in the mailinglist-archives of some program, and finding the answer to my problems there. TB will not be an exception to that rule. if you don't want your full-name in the archives, then mail as 'PHB' or somesuch. just make a quick template that changes your From: and Reply-To: and remember to use that every time you mail here :) (folder templates, anyone? *evil grin*) M. -- Friends don't let friends use Outlook. http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBP8u3Z0tQMadp+KslEQIdFwCguoEqP9Zl8id1h1Zopr35xHw4x0MAoKRN 5OW0LO+cNqcpHeG0yZFiWSI9 =M69q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________________ http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
