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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

Christopher Greiner wrote:
> Hi Sympa users,
>
> I'm looking to add a robots.txt file as it's been brought to our
> attention a couple of our pages have been indexed in Google with some
> user email addresses being displayed.
>
> I've since added the spam_protection directive in sympa.conf and
> requested removal of the offending pages via Google's webmaster tools.
> I'd like to add a robots.txt file to avoid our sympa subdomain getting
> indexed in the future. I've had a search and can't find any information
> on how to do this. Any pointers?
Simplest thing would be to add a static page to your web server - don't 
need to involve sympa at all to do this.

So.. if your server is lists.unil.ch, then create a text page at 
lists.unil.ch/robots.txt - containing something like:

User-agent: *
Disallow: *

If you want to be a bit more granular, and allow indexing of some things, see 
the description of robots.txt at
http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html

Miles Fidelman




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