Re: Links This Site is about Robots Not Censorship
Keith (radio@mpx.com.au)
Thu, 30 Mar 1995 22:28:21 +1000
Are You Kidding or Something ?
This is not the place for this sort of Censorship Plans.
Here we have millions of people supporting the Blue Ribbon Campaign
and you want to organise the Size of the Jail Cell
Who are you to Judge?
Keith
>On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Jared Williams wrote:
>
>> At 08:07 PM 3/25/96 -0700, you wrote:
>> >At 3:14 PM 3/25/96, Jared Williams <williams@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>>
>> If you want go ahead and check out my sight and reply me with e-mail telling
>> me if you think it deserves to be higher on the list.
>
> ...then you're someone trying to make money from it..
>
>> Thanks...
>
>To save you all the bother it's just like the
>
><http://metasearch.com/> Metasearch page, but it charges you $130 for the
>service as opposed to free.. and I think they possibly also sell a web
>authoring tool, but the page wasn't sufficiently clear about what it was
>exactly they were doing..
>
>Then, at the end of his page he had the following keywords repeated
>
>California
>Northwest
>Animation
>Promotion Web Site
>Development Web Site
>Knitter Web
>Money
>
>about 50 times each..
>
>okay, so the action to take in his case is obvious (deindex any siGHt(e)
>beloning to him), but what is the general case to stop this? It's very
>difficult as far as I can see. It's deliberate worthless junk, trying to
>get in at the level of people who are providing worthwhile information
>about california/web sites etc.
>
>Seems quite similar to the problem of spammed email/netnews to me. In
>that case the answer was for responsible sites to ban users who do the
>spamming and for irresponsible sites to be separated from all their
>neighbourhood, cutting them off from the network.. Dosen't really work
>here, because this is too trivial a matter (he's not doing any active
>damage) for that kind of response, but, what he is doing is messing up
>the catologues.
>
>I suggest that the major catalogue brokers might want to start removing
>sites/domains that don't protect people from this. Then the peer pressure
>would become strong from neigbourhood sites so that this would be controlled.
>Obviously anything which is put as not to access in a robots.txt would be
>something that shouldn't be complained about?
>
>Okay, it's not a big problem now, but it's much easier to write hundreds
>of junk pages than one properly researched web page, so the swamp is
>coming upon us pretty fast.
>
>Actually cutting off a few domains (as they are noticed or complained
>about) might be worthwhile..
>
>What about each search page coming up with a rating button for each
>page (relevance to search/quality).. Pages which are consistently marked
>down would eventually get examined somehow and downrated?? Do censorship
>issues come in here, or would that just be stopped from being a problem
>by the level of competition?
>
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