On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:17:34AM -0500, mike ledoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:06:24AM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> > Someone has privately e-mailed and raised the privacy issue. While I
> > think this "faces" database would be useful, I am a little concerned
> > about search engines indexing our images (anyone seend
> > images.google.com?)
>
> > Could this be prevented by adding password access to the images page?
> > Or, should we https it as well?
>
> First, I'd like to emphasize that any such database would, by nature,
> be strictly optional. Anyone that doesn't want to be in it won't be.
> As for restricted access, I had taken it as a given that any such database
> wouldn't be publicly accessable (I certainly don't want my ugly mug
> on google!). A password protected webpage seems like a good idea, but who
> do you allow in? You'd want to allow everyone who has a photo posted,
> obviously, but what about 'GNHLUG members' that don't post a photo?
> Given our open membership, does it make sense to treat 'GNHLUG members'
> any differently from the general public?
I seems to me that a standard robots.txt file would prevent at least
the common search engines from indexing the pages.
--
Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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