Re: [vps-mail] REQUEST

[Patrick Harris <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Scott.

Thanks for the quick response and filtering out of the relevant headers.

I, for one, would prefer to remove the archives from outside search 
engines.  The thing I like least about having the archives on the 
search engines is that over 90% of many searches that I've tested on 
google for my name, company, etc. are predominately messages from this 
forum.

If someone is looking for me or my firm via a search engine, my 
postings to this list are not what I wish for them to find first.  :)

I know that situation is "my fault" -- that's how my default signature 
is setup.  But it's not what I intended.

BTW -- can members of this list request to have a string of characters 
filtered out of the archives -- IE my standard signature?  That's 
probably a can of worms that you really don't wanna open up, I suppose.

Thanks for your hard work on behalf of the public good.

Be well,

Patrick



On Jun 27, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Scott Wiersdorf wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:45:48PM -0500, Rae French wrote:
> > Thanks, Scott. Those changes help tremendously. There is just one 
> > other
> > thing that I would add and that would be to have a robots.txt file in 
> > the
> > archive directory to stop the spiders from catching the posts. Other 
> > than
> > that, I'm happy. :)
>
> I've considered that in the past, but I also know that our archives
> are immensely useful for other open-source software users (close to
> 20k hits in June for the vps-mail archive).
>
> It wouldn't be hard, of course, and we still have the list's
> (open-source) htdig search engine to find messages. Does everyone else
> feel the same way about closing off the list archives to spiders? I'd
> like to get some kind of feel for what other folks feel before I shut
> 'er down to robots.
>
> Scott
> --
> Scott Wiersdorf
> scottw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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