Nick Kew wrote:
Paul Querna wrote:
2. There are several formats for each mail message (regular, raw,
mime). Probably the links to everything other than the standard
format should use the rel="nofollow" modifier to keep the search
engines out. Keeping the robots off of 2/3 of the links could make
a big difference in load considering the number of pages on this site.
I agree. We don't want Google and friends indexing the raw format, and
then ranking it higher than the normal presentation.
More importantly, any mail archive without nofollow in the messages
becomes a spam magnet. Here's some nice free googlerank for
http://dodgy.pills.example.com/?refid=yourstruly
Well, we don't want to keep search engines out of the archive entirely.
The archives are a huge resource that we want easily searchable.
But we need to start thinking about a way to remove specific messages
from our archives for this reason among others. That is more a topic
for infrastructure@
Joshua.
