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Easiest for bruce to set up a test email account and see what, if any, additional mail arrives. Huw. On 28 October 2011 18:45, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote: > Also, it's just an instruction that TELLS the spider bot to not index, it > doesn't STOP the bot from indexing. Spider bots for legitimate search > engines like google are programmed not to index pages with the "don't index" > instruction, but a spider bot that's used nefariously to harvest email > addresses could just ignore that instruction and index anyway. > > I think it's not likely that xmca is significantly involved in the SPAM > problem. Having said that, moving to something like a group blog that people > could subscribe to would allow threaded posts to appear without email > addresses, and would have other advantages as well. > > > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Bruce Jones wrote: > > From huw.softdesigns@gmail.com Fri Oct 28 09:58:40 2011 >>> >>> Website pages can be marked as _not_ for 'spider bots' that accumulate >>> pages for google and the like, I believe. So checking the relevant >>> lchc pages would be a start. >>> >> >> This is the "robots.txt" file that tells the search engines which of >> your pages to index. >> >> If you don't allow the search engines to index your pages then their >> contents won't show up the search listings. >> > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca