Opened 17 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

#173 closed task (invalid)

mailman archives setup to discourage search engine crawlers?

Reported by: warmerdam Owned by: sac@…
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: SysAdmin Keywords: mailman
Cc: neteler

Description

I noticed that the OSGeo mailing list archives disallow indexing with the following code bit:

     <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,follow">

at this URL: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/

Could you remove the "noindex" bit, or at least forward this on to the owner of the archives in general so they can do so?

Change History (4)

comment:1 by warmerdam, 17 years ago

I have reviewed the "Archiving Options" page for mailman and didn't notice any obvious way of controlling this setting. Anyone else have ideas? Does the <META> tag in question really tell search engines not to catalog our archives?

comment:2 by neteler, 17 years ago

Cc: neteler added

comment:3 by jbirch, 17 years ago

Yes, but it's OK because the individual message pages say:

     <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow">

Mailman has it right; we only want the engines to index the "meat"

comment:4 by warmerdam, 17 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

Thanks Jason, I think I understand now. Closing...

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