Robin Lougee-Heimer wrote: >A mailman archive was inadvertently made public for a list I own (!) and >I'm trying to clean up any pages that were cached by search engines. > >The way to flush the cache created by search engines is easy - just add an >html tag in the header section of the webpage pages. But I can't figure >out how to access the html pages for the archive pages generated by >mailman. Is there a way? (I didn't see this addressed in the faqs or in >a quick scan of the documentation.)
Whether your list archives are public or private, the static HTML pages are all in the archives/private/listname/ directories and can be edited as you desire, but some pages such as the TOC and index pages are rewritten as messages are added. But, this won't do any good. When your archive was public, it was accessed via the 'pipermail' alias. I.e. it was accessed via a URL of the form http://www.example.com/pipermail/listname/ which accessed the archive itself via a symlink in archives/public/. Now that the archive is private, the symlink is gone, and that 'pipermail' URL no longer works. In any case, you need to just wait for the search engine to crawl your site again, find that the URL now returns a 'not found' and drop its cached page. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp