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1998/10/10-11 [Computer/SW/SpamAssassin] UID:14760 Activity:high
10/9    Can someone edit the robots file for the web server and block
        EmailSiphon  before we get spammed. Its sole purpose is to
        grab e-mail addresses for spam
        \_ and what makes you think they honor robots.txt ?
        \_ Try wpoison instead (search on Yahoo); it generates fake pages with
           fake addresses to entrap spam robots that don't honor robots.txt.
           You can customize it to produce your own style, and it's death to
           many spam robots.  -- schoen
        \_/usr/local/www/conf/access.conf:AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
          go .htaccess
                \_ .htaccess has nothing to do with robots - just create your
                        own robots.txt file
                        \_ robots.txt is only required to be honored from
                           / at a site, not in each individual directory.
                                \hence my motd post. SPAM to  soda's been
                                a real problem and I will be damned to
                                make a toll call to get off the list.
                           \_ Buy a clue. Why makes you think spammers write
                              email harvesters that honor the Robot Exclusion
                              Protocol? Why would they?
                              \_ They wouldn't; I was correcting the person
                                 who said "just create your own robots.txt"
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