It would be nice to secure it so that people couldn't do that, but there are enough lurkers on the list from XYZ corp. and various other agencies and entities that what we say amongst members gets up the food chain anyway.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brad Grafelman Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:00 AM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] About the New List Manager > does google pay attention to robots.txt files? Yes (in fact, that was the first thing I checked before I even read beyond the first e-mail in this thread! :P). I agree with Dylan, though. While listserv conversations are far from "private" or "confidential," do we really need people searching the interwebs for comments (positive or negative) about a specific product/company/etc. (isn't there enough grief about that already? :P)? I guess I'm spoiled, though, in that I already have a search feature since I use GMail and archive all tech-geeks e-mails... Thanks, Brad Grafelman E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (309) 657-5582 On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Abe Loveless <[email protected]> wrote: does google pay attention to robots.txt files? Is there any interest in password protecting the archive with some generic password? That would keep out a robot. Dylan Haines wrote: Just a though, is there a way (or a desire) to prevent Google from indexing that archive? Dylan Dylan Haines Systems Technical Support Manager HB Studios Multimedia Ltd. Box 725, The Hive 37 Hall Street Lunenburg, NS B0J 2C0 Tel: (902)634-8316 ext. 237 Cell: (902)553-0706 Fax: (902)634-3647 www.hb-studios.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Abe Loveless Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:43 AM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: [tech-geeks] About the New List Manager Here's a little info about the new List Manager software. We are using "Mailman", a very popular list manager for *nix that has been around for years and years. It has a lot more options, and puts the user more in control of the experience. With the old system, you were either subscribed to the list or to the digest, and the only option you had was to unsubscribe if you wanted to change. The new system will let you change your options on the fly. It also has the ability to Disable Mail Sending. If you go on vacation, and don't want to see the messages clogging up your phone/Inbox, you can disable your e-mail delivery, without unsubscribing. Then, when you return just re-enable delivery. To Subscribe / Un-Subscribe / Edit Options: http://www.tech-geeks.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech-geeks Enter your subscribed e-mail address at the very bottom of the page, and click the "Unsubscribe or Edit Options" button. The List Archive is available here: http://www.tech-geeks.org/pipermail/tech-geeks/ The archive is searchable, and it is fast. One thing I noticed is that you have to be specific in your search criteria. A search for "fog" pulls 111 results, while a search for "fog laptop" pulls 19 results. Also, the system is slowly importing the historical archive from the old server as well. It will take awhile for the process to complete, but when it is done, we should have a pretty complete searchable archive (that is actually usable). Thanks, Abe _______________________________________________ Tech-geeks mailing list [email protected] http://lists.illinicloud.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech-geeks _______________________________________________ Tech-geeks mailing list [email protected] http://lists.illinicloud.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech-geeks _______________________________________________ Tech-geeks mailing list [email protected] http://lists.illinicloud.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech-geeks
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