Hello, Am Samstag, 15. Oktober 2005 08:44 schrieb Dazzle: > On 10/15/05, Christian Boltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just checked http://lists.opensuse.org/robots.txt > > > > Disallow: / > > > > Could someone from SUSE please explain why all search engines are > > locked out?
An official statement is still missing :-( > 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. Hey, I already got spam to the adresses used in the opensuse lists - the robots.txt wasn't able to avoid this... I guess spammers use the direct way to get mail adresses and just subscribe (with a "anonymous" mail adress @gmx etc.). This is even more inconspicuous than a wget -r... You see, spammers get mail adresses in any case. My question still remains: Why should we lock out users who want to search the list archives? Regards, Christian Boltz -- Zwei Informatikstudenten treffen sich auf dem Campus. Sagt der eine: "Hey, woher hast du das schöne neue Fahrrad?" Antwortet der andere: "Nun, ich lief gestern durch den Park, als eine wunderschöne Blondine auf dem Fahrrad vor mir anhielt, sich nackt auszog und sagte: Nimm dir was du willst!" Sagt der erste: "Gute Wahl, die Kleider hätten bestimmt nicht gepasst." [Bernd Tannenbaum in suse-linux] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
