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

news gateways

1997-12-15 Thread Ian Jackson
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 finding it > throug

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

news gateways

1997-12-13 Thread 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 finding it through our own WWW arc