In any case, I highly doubt spam harvesters follow robots.txt -- brian
On Sunday, April 29, 2018, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <[email protected]> wrote: > There are ways to combat bots, both on-list with configuration like > *obscure_addresses*, and through the process of archiving. [1] > > Decent email providers like GMail do a great job of filtering spam for the > end user. Others like Comcast or Verizon do not. > > There are many ways that the end user can help themselves. For example, > use a list-specific address through plus-addressing or sub-domain > addressing. [2] > > [1] http://www.emailarchivestaskforce.org/documents/email-tools/ lists > dozens of archiving systems > [2] https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html > > > Greg Rundlett > https://eQuality-Tech.com > https://freephile.org > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
