Privacy issue with your site

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 26 June 2009 20:49:05 Andy Goossens wrote:
> Op donderdag 25 juni 2009 20:35:36 schreef Anne Wilson:
> > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 17:42:21 Brian wrote:
> > > I don't post to your mailing lists and yet lists.kde.org is one of the
> > > first results for my name.
> > >
> > > http://www.google.com/search?q=%22brian+mingus%22
> > >
> > > This is unacceptable - the Wikimedia Foundation has banned spiders from
> > > crawling their mailing lists using robots.txt. Please remove this page
> > > from your site.
> >
> > This is a very strange thing.  The link that mentions kde is in the
> > second 10 - yet if you click on it you get taken to an archive of
> > messages to Wikitech- l.  It doesn't appear to have any connection with
> > KDE.
>
> It is not that strange: The hostname "lists.kde.org" is an alias for
> "marc.info". The actual content is on marc.info but we provide an
> alternative way to access it. If you replace any "lists.kde.org" URL by
> "marc.info" then it will still work.
>
> If you take a look at http://lists.kde.org/robots.txt then it is obvious
> that every spider but Google(bot) is banned. Not that it will stop the bad
> guys... 

Seems to me that if you post to any mailing list, sooner or later your address 
will be picked up.  The strange thing is that he is surprised.

Anne
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