Hi Yash, SM,
On 12/19/2015 11:14 PM, Yash Maudhoo wrote:
>
> What about using robots.txt to restrict bots
> (Except search engine bots)from crawling the archive?
>
Robots.txt contain *instructions* for crawlers, but cannot force them to
abide.
On 12/19/2015 10:42 PM, S Moonesamy wrote:
>
> A captcha can be used to make it difficult to read the mailing list
> archives. A bot crawling the archive can still bypass a captcha and
> access the mailing list archives. I will run an experiment to make it
> difficult to read the mailing list archive.
I think Yash meant the captcha only for the email showing part, not the
whole archive. Is that right Yash?
Regards,
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Received on Sat Dec 19 2015 - 19:21:13 PST