Re: [Python-Dev] Googlebot and the mail.python.org pyth on-dev archive

2009-02-28 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Nick Coghlan gmail.com> writes: > > > > > which explicitly instructs Web spiders *not* to index contents nor follow links. > > That's not quite true - that meta tag says not to index the current > page, but *do* follow the links to other pages. The archive page and the > monthly summary pa

Re: [Python-Dev] Googlebot and the mail.python.org pyth on-dev archive

2009-02-28 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Georg Brandl gmx.net> writes: > > Guido van Rossum schrieb: > > I think the better syntax would be to add site:mail.python.org to the > > query, but you're right, that doesn't seem to find recent messages. > > Maybe the absence of a robots.txt file on mail.python.org could be a > > partial explan