[Mailman-Users] Using robots.txt

Max Pyziur pyz at brama.com
Mon Nov 9 02:09:20 CET 2009



Greetings

Mailman's email lists are visible search engine spiders from 
http://www.somedomain.com/pipermail/emaillistname/etc

However, /pipermail is an alias of /var/mailman/archives/public/

per mailman.conf

I've tried placing a basic robots.txt file at 
/var/mailman/archives/public/ and set permissions to 644. However, my 
lists still get spidered.

Any suggestions on where to place the robots.txt file to prevent 
spidering?

Thanks!

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com


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