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Re: news gateways



Ian:
> Bruce:
> > Chris says that all of the mailing lists are gatewayed one-way only,
> > and there is no mention of the list address in the headers. Thus, he
> > thinks that the people who are finding our list by mistake are doing
> > it through some other means. Does this mean that they are finding it
> > through our own WWW archives of the mailing lists? Do we need to add
> > something there to keep them from being indexed?
> 
> That's quite possible, and we should do something about it.  However,
> I still feel that we should shut down general USENET gateways of our
> development lists.
> 
> [...]

E.g. HotBot, 
 which is what I got with clicking menu: directory/internet search
  in Netscape 3.03 for NT
gives, when searched with Dale Scheetz
 5434 matches of the form:
 http://www.de.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9702/msg00119.html, 3468 bytes, 04Apr97

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