Subject: Re: irrelevant posts

From: Stefan Kramer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 09:34:25 -0800 (PST)

In order to hopefully cut down somewhat on that phenomenon of people
performing searches in WWW indexes, retrieving pages from the pine-info
(converted-to-HTML) archives as a result, and then writing to the list on
non-Pine topics, I have added a blurb to the HTML files for individual
messages and listings of messages.  Also, the individual-message HTML files
now contain the element:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

which should eventually reduce the presence of pine-info postings in WWW
indexes. 

All this is in effect only for the current month's (Jan. '98) messages now,
and will be for the entire archives starting early next month. With luck,
that will help a bit with reducing irrelevant posts. 

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  Stefan Kramer                   [email-masked]
  PINE Information Center    http://www.washington.edu/pine/
  Computing & Communications        University of Washington    
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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 11:42:31 -0600 (CST)

>From: Stefan Kramer <[email-masked]>
>Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 09:34:25 -0800 (PST)

>messages and listings of messages.

What will the blurb say?

Legxl nxme chxnge has now been asked so many times, it should be a FAQ.

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From: Stefan Kramer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 10:01:32 -0800 (PST)

On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

> ....
> ....

Take a look at any page under
http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/1998.01/ -- if it's not noticeable
enough, I could make it <BLINK ;-> ?!

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 14:07:36 -0600 (CST)

>Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 10:01:32 -0800 (PST)

>http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/1998.01/

That should be fine.

>if it's not noticeable enough, I could make it <BLINK ;-> ?!

No, make it activate the mallet-attached-to-ANSI.

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From: Stefan Kramer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 12:42:04 -0800 (PST)

Since at least some irrelevant posts seem to come to the list via people
clicking on the <mailto:[email-masked]> links on the individual
messages' WWW pages in the archives, those will also no longer be generated
-- for the current month starting tomorrow, for the other months starting
early next month.