Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: Should I send you a photocopy of the original cdroms that I used to install on my system? Actually, that can be useful, if only to verify just what version was installed :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-06 Thread Richard Atterer
Just fix the program that generates our HTML mailing list archives, and make it output meta name=robots content=noindex for mails which contain any of the Forbidden Words! Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-06 Thread David Pashley
On Sep 05, 2005 at 18:33, John Hasler praised the llamas by saying: David Pashley writes: No, because that doesn't help the next person that searches on Google. If these people read the messages they find with their searches they wouldn't post here. They don't. They just grab the address

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-06 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:44:41PM +0100, David Pashley wrote: [...] Even still, it's worth trying to get http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/01/msg01444.html bumped up to the top of the google search all the same. [...] Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems to me that it would be

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-06 Thread Bob Proulx
David Pashley wrote: John Hasler praised the llamas by saying: And helping people get off C4LL W4VE is not our job. Surely we should do our best to help all computer users, not just Debian users. :) It is not practical nor even possible to do so. The noise is overwhelming! I have a

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-06 Thread John Hasler
David Pashley writes: I'd hope that people actually clicked on the page in question rather than just seeing the email address in the summary on the google search. We don't hear from those ones. But yes, I agree that some users are occasionally stupid or lazy or both. Those we do hear from.

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-06 Thread John Hasler
The Fungi writes: Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems to me that it would be more effective to try to get http://www.callwave.com/members/cancel/ bumped up to the top of the google search instead. Now that sounds sensible. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
Please do not follow up to these messages. These idiots apparently Google the phrase and then spam all the addresses they find. Posting about the subject here just creates more hits. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread David Pashley
On Sep 05, 2005 at 16:31, John Hasler praised the llamas by saying: Please do not follow up to these messages. These idiots apparently Google the phrase and then spam all the addresses they find. Posting about the subject here just creates more hits. I believe it is far more useful to follow

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
David Pashley writes: I believe it is far more useful to follow up to these emails providing useful information how to remove themselves and in particular link to the rather informative email from Josh Metzler[0] so that they might find out how to do it themselves rather than emailing the

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread David Pashley
On Sep 05, 2005 at 17:13, John Hasler praised the llamas by saying: David Pashley writes: I believe it is far more useful to follow up to these emails providing useful information how to remove themselves and in particular link to the rather informative email from Josh Metzler[0] so that

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
David Pashley wrote: Don't follow up. Reply to them privately. No, because that doesn't help the next person that searches on Google. That is exactly the point. We DO NOT WANT people to find the Debian mailing lists in any relation to that search. Every time someone references it in a

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread David Pashley
On Sep 05, 2005 at 18:14, Bob Proulx praised the llamas by saying: David Pashley wrote: Don't follow up. Reply to them privately. No, because that doesn't help the next person that searches on Google. That is exactly the point. We DO NOT WANT people to find the Debian mailing lists

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Proulx wrote: David Pashley wrote: Don't follow up. Reply to them privately. No, because that doesn't help the next person that searches on Google. That is exactly the point. We DO NOT WANT people to find the Debian mailing lists in any

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
David Pashley writes: No, because that doesn't help the next person that searches on Google. If these people read the messages they find with their searches they wouldn't post here. They don't. They just grab the address and spam us. And helping people get off C4LL W4VE is not our job. I

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: I wonder if it would be possible to appeal to google to have them manually edit that search so that l.d.o doesn't appear. (Same for [replaced with string instrument to avoid another google hit]'s) What I think I would rather see is targeted moderation of anything