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Subject: Re: Archives
From: Manar Hussain <manar @ ivision . co . uk>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 16:52:18 +0000
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <4cTDke1w165w@clovis.nerdnosh.org>
References: <v03130303b0fdb2feced0@[207.167.80.70]>

>There's a very satisfactory middle ground.  Our archive Attic is
>closed to the bots but wide open to everyone else.  Doesn't
>robots.txt accomplish the mission of blocking the search
>engines?

Only if they obey it. If spammer run their own bots this is hardly likely
to be the case. Currently we just replace the email address with the "name".

Manar


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