On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 09:44 +0300, Dazzle wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 10/15/05, Christian Boltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I just checked http://lists.opensuse.org/robots.txt
> >
> > -----------------------------
> > User-agent: *
> >         Disallow: /
> > -----------------------------
> >
> > Could someone from SUSE please explain why all search engines are locked
> > out?
> 
> Probably because the spam-bots are searching the mailing-list and they
> are searching on Google too. I don't think you would like to get a lot
> of spam in your Inbox just because you are subscribed to a
> mailing-list. Personaly I think it's better not to let robots indexing
> the mailing-list.
> 
This is fine but don't chastise anyone for -not- searching the archives
when there is no search capabilities. I would not expect anyone to
search 1000's of emails one by one looking for answers.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998


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