Re: Mailing list archives

From: Yash Maudhoo <yashmaudhoo_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:00:59 +0400

> Hi Ish,
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>> On Dec 19, 2015, at 11:21 PM, Ish Sookun <ish_at_lsl.digital> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Thank You for clarifying that!
> Another way that can reduce spam is cloudflare email obfuscation, ScrapeShield[1]. Or a piece of code could be written to convert email addresses to images.
>
> [1] https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/scrapeshield/
>
> Regards,
> Yash
>
Received on Sat Dec 19 2015 - 20:01:14 PST

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