From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24317 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2015 08:05:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 24301 invoked by uid 89); 11 Jan 2015 08:05:40 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: ainaz.pair.com Received: from ainaz.pair.com (HELO ainaz.pair.com) (209.68.2.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 08:05:34 +0000 Received: from [10.175.130.31] (unknown [114.125.171.178]) by ainaz.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5EDAD3F426 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 03:05:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 08:05:00 -0000 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: overseers@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [Con Validas] URL block request from googlebot In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2015-q1/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 On Saturday 2014-12-20 20:46, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > I haven't seen this kind of request before. Any opinions? I've looked at this thrice over the course of a two weeks, and still am struggling. Since this is not about removing contents, just taking it off the search engine map with robots.txt, it's less problematic (and we would not "censor"). On the other hand, this posting really seems harmless enough and I don't understand. On the third hand, such an approach sipmly does not scale. So, I'd not to it personally, though I would not complain bitterly if someone else did. Gerald