[Xerte] Anti Spam

[Dave Burnett]

Why don't I ask Peter Ariën how he set the access to the AWARE list up.
20 years and I have never had spam I could trace back to that list.

I just think it doesn't help the growth/adoption of a tool if you hide it.

Dave

Subject: RE: [Xerte] Anti Spam
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:18:07 +0100
From: Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk



















I’ll ask the sysadmin people.

 





From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jeremy
Hopkins

Sent: 21 July 2009 17:01

To: Xerte discussion list

Subject: RE: [Xerte] Anti Spam





 

If you add a robots.txt file to
your lists sub domain here:

 

http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/robots.txt

 

and add the following to it:

 

User-agent: * Disallow: /

 

That will keep the search engines
out, but that will mean the content is not searchable via those engines.

 

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 L.

 

Jeremy

 









From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk]
On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley

Sent: 21 July 2009 16:55

To: Xerte discussion list

Subject: RE: [Xerte] Anti Spam



 

Maybe it’s the google
search widget for the list?

 





From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk]
On Behalf Of Jeremy Hopkins

Sent: 21 July 2009 16:52

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Subject: [Xerte] Anti Spam





 

Hello, 

 

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”.

 

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.

 

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?

 

Sorry to be a whinge.

 

Jeremy


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