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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>It'll break our own search engine.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>I didn't think your email ever showed up in the archives anyway?</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Patrick Lockley<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tue 21/07/2009 17:18<BR><B>To:</B> Xerte discussion list<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Xerte] Anti Spam<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> 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></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">If you add a robots.txt file to your lists sub domain here:</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><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=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">and add the following to it:</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt">User-agent: * Disallow: /</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">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=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">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; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings">L</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Jeremy</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> 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></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Maybe it’s the google search widget for the list?</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 72pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> 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></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 72pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Hello, </SPAN></P>
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<P class=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=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=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=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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