Recently, several of our members have brought up the issue of personal information (in particular, e-mail addresses) being used by "unauthorized" third parties for marketing purposes (or harrassment).

I believe these concerns are justified. I've also discovered material from FlyerTalk cached in external search engines, which abusers can "mine" with impunity.

I would appreciate it if you would augment webflyer's robots.txt to include the following additional restrictions:

The "honest" search engine operators will respect this. It's not a perfect solution, merely a step in the right direction.

Thanks! --EPS