Re: news gateways

1997-12-15 Thread bruce
Ian, My main concern is whether we are getting completely clueless people who are not interested in Linux at all on debian-devel because of the news gateway. If that is not the case, I dont' have justification to remove it. I don't see a reason to take it off the gateway because it would "unsettle

Re: news gateways

1997-12-15 Thread Arto Astala
Ian: > Bruce: > > Chris says that all of the mailing lists are gatewayed one-way only, > > and there is no mention of the list address in the headers. Thus, he > > thinks that the people who are finding our list by mistake are doing > > it through some other means. Does this mean that they are find

RE: news gateways

1997-12-15 Thread Mark Ciciretti
Please disregarde the first 10 line of my previous message. (Error with the mouse). __ Please do not look directly into laser with remaining eye. E-Mail: Mark Ciciretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 14-Dec-97 Time: 21:16:00 -- -- TO U

RE: news gateways

1997-12-15 Thread Mark Ciciretti
Add the line User-agent: * Disallow: /BugsDisallow: /Bugs /Disallow: /Bugs/ On 13-Dec-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does this mean that they are finding it through our own > WWW archives of the mailing lists? Yes. Search indexes like Yahoo index the whole site. > Do we need to add somethin

Re: news gateways

1997-12-14 Thread David Frey
On Sun, Dec 14 1997 1:09 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > We should be cognizant that people do troll for mailto: URLs and spam them. This is the real problem IMO with the problem below. > The major problem is that the WWW list

Re: news gateways

1997-12-14 Thread Avery Pennarun
On 14 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Does this mean we shouldn't include the list addresses ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > in our web pages? If so, I guess I have to fix some pages... > > I don't have a problem with the list addresses being in the WW

Re: news gateways

1997-12-14 Thread bruce
From: Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Does this mean we shouldn't include the list addresses ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > in our web pages? If so, I guess I have to fix some pages... I don't have a problem with the list addresses being in the WWW pages. We should be cognizant that people do tro

Re: news gateways

1997-12-13 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 13 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Chris says that all of the mailing lists are gatewayed one-way only, > and there is no mention of the list address in the headers. Thus, he thinks > that the people who are finding our list by mistake are doing it through > some other means. Does this mean