[MT-users] Blocking archives of this list from Google?

[David Rosam]

I'm happy to have the archives hidden - it's a private list, after all - 
but not particularly evangelistic about it.

The page can be blocked from spiders using robots.txt.

Cheers

David

David Jennings wrote:
> I guess this is mainly a question for Paul, but I'm sending it to the 
> list in case others have opinions...
> 
> Is it (a) possible and (b) desirable to block Google and other search 
> engines from indexing the archives of this email list, which are on the 
> web at http://paulm.com/mail/mt-users/index.html ?
> 
> Normally I'm fairly careful about what I say on the web, because you 
> never know who might be reading, but this is the kind of forum where I 
> am quite likely to reveal the kind of psychopathic torture routines I'd 
> like to subject comment spammers to. And other things not really for 
> public consumption.
> 
> So my vote would be to block search engines from indexing these 
> messages, if that's possible.
> 
> David
> 
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