Re: [Sks-devel] serving a robots.txt

[David Shaw]

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+uid
>
> I 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