[NTLUG:Discuss] why does the mail server stop working overandover

[MadHat]

In <11-ntlug.discuss at ntlug.org> Chris Cox  wrote:
> Rev. wRy wrote:
>> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 09:17, Scott Hollomon wrote:
>> 
>>>I have also wondered why there is not a move to a web based forum.  
>>>Its makes  the expertise of the NTLUG membership easier to get to and 
>>>searchable without  maintaining your own archive (my personal archive 
>>>only goes back to 6-23-04  and contains 4902 items).  
>> 
>> 
>> It's already searchable:
>> 
>> http://www.ntlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>> 
>> Notice the "NTLUG Search via Google" button.  Most of the PHP based
>> forums I've had the displeasure of using have horrid built in search
>> functionality.
>> 
> 
> It's a pro and con.  We didn't/don't mask the emails so they get
> picked up by harvesters.

We do change it from user at domain to user at domain, but that is minimal.

Example:
http://ntlug.org/pipermail/discuss/Week-of-Mon-20050502/024832.html

>  I think I may have robots.txt them out
> not too long ago because we were getting hit pretty hard by
> some harvesters/crawlers (not that the bad folks care about
> robots.txt of course).

You do and it means that the google searching/indexing is now broken. ;)