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From: | David Shaw |
Subject: | Re: [Sks-devel] serving a robots.txt |
Date: | Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:51:26 -0400 |
On Aug 15, 2008, at 4:44 AM, address@hidden wrote:
Hi! E-Mail harvesting on PGP key servers can be done with such commands: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Akeyserver.fabbione.net+pks+uidI already receive spam because i decided to upload my public key years ago. I know its the source, because the same spam message arrived on all accounts belonging to one key withing seconds.Those results could be prevented if server administrators would place such a robots.txt file in their webroot:User-agent: * Disallow: /pks/
Why would spammers even care if the robots.txt file is in place? Only people following the rules respect robots.txt. Spammers, by definition, are not following the rules.
David
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