Joel, This mailing lists have always been, and always be, publicly available. Even if we "prevent" Google! (for example) from crawling our site, people can still waltz right into http://www.opensrs.org, find the archives, and search them there. We have numerous list members who are not even OpenSRS resellers (yet, or past tense) :) Charles Daminato OpenSRS Product Manager Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Joel Miles-Board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: July 8, 2001 7:32 AM > To: Charles Daminato > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: OSRS discussion lists html pages > > > Chuck, > > My concern was how to prevent search engines bringing up possibly > sensitive > information rather that "how do I promote our domain" Chuck! My great > concern is that Tucows have nothing in place to prevent crawling of these > pages, and in theory our customers can see a RSP's postings to > the reseller > list, which obviously contains sensitve information, such as marketing > tactics and more importantly reseller buy prices for domains etc > etc. As you > can see I've decided to change my name to limit the spread of my company > name appearing in searches. I'm sure others must be pretty unhappy to see > their comments to the list available to anyone conducting a web search on > their company/ name or any other part of their email address. > > I believe there are certainly meta tags which can instruct > crawler bots not > to list certain pages. > > Joel. > > > >> I was concerned to find that conducting a search on either my > name or my > >> company name as bringing up all my messages to the discussion list. (if > >> someone searches my company name I'd obviously prefer them get our web > >> site!! :)) Do these pages on your servers really *have* to be > crawled? I'm > >> trying to therefore find a way to stop this, which I guess would be to > >> unsubscribe my email address and resubscribe with a new one > under a unused > >> domain? > >
