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<br>Why don't I ask Peter Ariën how he set the access to the AWARE list up.<br>20 years and I have never had spam I could trace back to that list.<br><br>I just think it doesn't help the growth/adoption of a tool if you hide it.<br><br>Dave<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Subject: RE: [Xerte] Anti Spam<br>Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:18:07 +0100<br>From: Patrick.Lockley@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br><br>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: blue;">I’ll ask the sysadmin people.</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">
xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeremy
Hopkins<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 21 July 2009 17:01<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Anti Spam</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: navy;">If you add a robots.txt file to
your lists sub domain here:</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: navy;"><a href="http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/robots.txt">http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/robots.txt</a></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: navy;">and add the following to it:</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;">User-agent: * Disallow: /</p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: navy;">That will keep the search engines
out, but that will mean the content is not searchable via those engines.</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: navy;">As I said, I do not wish to
moan… but as things are it’s only a matter of time before the
Viagra salesmen start pushing their wares to all your subscribers </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: navy;">L</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: navy;">.</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: navy;">Jeremy</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">
xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Patrick Lockley<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 21 July 2009 16:55<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Anti Spam</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: blue;">Maybe it’s the google
search widget for the list?</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';" lang="EN-US">
xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeremy Hopkins<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 21 July 2009 16:52<br>
<b>To:</b> xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Anti Spam</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Hello, </span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I have started receiving spam since joining
the Xerte mailing list, that may be coincidence, or it is possible they got my
address from another source, but, regardless of that I I see my mail address is
indexed in google, the only precaution being to replace @ with
“at”.</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Personally I do not think that is enough, it
is such a common trick any self respecting spammer would harvest those and take
a punt on them being a mail address.</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Is it possible to remove the domain from the
addresses, add some more text to the address, or drop the list in favour of a
forum?</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Sorry to be a whinge.</span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Jeremy</span></p>
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