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Re: [OM] eSIF @ nbci R.I.P.

Subject: Re: [OM] eSIF @ nbci R.I.P.
From: "Tom A. Trottier" <TomATrottier@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 02:38:36 -0400
Dear Andrew,

Google indexes PDFs.

Tom

On 7 Apr 2001, at 13:01, sayeth Andrew Dacey <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

> On 4/7/01 10:25 AM, "Skip Williams" <skipwilliams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hanz,
> > 
> > You might want to consider hosting the main site on one service, and all
> > the .PDF files somewhere else.
> > 
> > We also might want to consider making the .PDF files password activated or
> > some other way to prevent spiders from crawling the site to pick up all
> > those attachments.
> 
> If you're talking about search engine spiders, normally they are setup to
> not download anything that doesn't look like a web page. Usually this is
> done by excluding stuff based on the extension. So, when a search engine
> indexes the esif, it should pass over those .pdf files without downloading
> them.
> 
> --
> 
> Andrew "Frugal" Dacey,
> frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.tildefrugal.net/
> 
> 
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