I am not sure what other people think, and I am only really a grateful guest from afar on this very cool group. However I got to thinking about how someone could build a profile of info on some of us over time based on scanning through the archives with Google (or other) serach engines. Just a thought.
Dylan Dylan Haines Systems Technical Support Manager HB Studios Multimedia Ltd. Box 725, The Hive 37 Hall Street Lunenburg, NS B0J 2C0 Tel: (902)634-8316 ext. 237 Cell: (902)553-0706 Fax: (902)634-3647 www.hb-studios.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Abe Loveless Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:52 AM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] About the New List Manager does google pay attention to robots.txt files? Is there any interest in password protecting the archive with some generic password? That would keep out a robot. Dylan Haines wrote: > Just a though, is there a way (or a desire) to prevent Google from > indexing that archive? > > Dylan > > > Dylan Haines > Systems Technical Support Manager > > HB Studios Multimedia Ltd. > Box 725, The Hive > 37 Hall Street > Lunenburg, NS B0J 2C0 > > Tel: (902)634-8316 ext. 237 > Cell: (902)553-0706 > Fax: (902)634-3647 > > www.hb-studios.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Abe Loveless > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:43 AM > To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List > Subject: [tech-geeks] About the New List Manager > > Here's a little info about the new List Manager software. We are > using "Mailman", a very popular list manager for *nix that has been > around for years and years. > > It has a lot more options, and puts the user more in control of the > experience. With the old system, you were either subscribed to the > list or to the digest, and the only option you had was to unsubscribe > if you wanted to change. > > The new system will let you change your options on the fly. It also > has the ability to Disable Mail Sending. If you go on vacation, and > don't want to see the messages clogging up your phone/Inbox, you can > disable your e-mail delivery, without unsubscribing. Then, when you > return just re-enable delivery. > > To Subscribe / Un-Subscribe / Edit Options: > http://www.tech-geeks.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech-geeks > > Enter your subscribed e-mail address at the very bottom of the page, > and click the "Unsubscribe or Edit Options" button. > > The List Archive is available here: > http://www.tech-geeks.org/pipermail/tech-geeks/ > > The archive is searchable, and it is fast. One thing I noticed is > that you have to be specific in your search criteria. > > A search for "fog" pulls 111 results, while a search for "fog laptop" > pulls 19 results. > > Also, the system is slowly importing the historical archive from the > old server as well. It will take awhile for the process to complete, > but when it is done, we should have a pretty complete searchable > archive (that is actually usable). > > Thanks, > Abe > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech-geeks mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.illinicloud.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech-geeks > > _______________________________________________ > Tech-geeks mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.illinicloud.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech-geeks > > _______________________________________________ Tech-geeks mailing list [email protected] http://lists.illinicloud.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech-geeks _______________________________________________ Tech-geeks mailing list [email protected] http://lists.illinicloud.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech-geeks
