Re: Mailing list archives

From: Ish Sookun <ish_at_lsl.digital>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 23:20:54 +0400

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,

-- 
Ish Sookun
I drink coffee & manage Linux servers
for lexpress.mu.
Received on Sat Dec 19 2015 - 19:21:13 PST

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