Making our personal information less public
Aug 15, 2000 | 10:02 pm
#1
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Making our personal information less public
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
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:
Code:
Disallow: /forum/ Disallow: /forumcgi/
Thanks! --EPS
Aug 16, 2000 | 8:22 pm
#2
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Posts: 3,567
I have to say I agree.. I yielded to pressure to put an email on site to give others a comfort zone about my credible intent. Unfortunately, it's clear to me from an uptick in junk mail that I've somehow been mined. It's truly unfortunate and we need any better protection against this that's reasonably available.