Re: [Micronet] concerns regarding finding people on the web

From: Greg Small (gts@uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 19:46:21 PST

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    Carol,

    As suggested by others you can use a ROBOTS.TXT file in the home
    directory of your web. The following will block all well behaved
    scans:

        User-agent: *
        Disallow: /

    Another possibility is to require login to the web. For example
    Apache .htaccess files can be used to require a simple basic
    authentication. Or on Windows NT and MS IIS, the directory permissions
    can be set to a group login known to your staff and anonymous access
    can be disabled. This solution applies only if no public or general
    access is necessary. Either method could also be used to limit
    access to campus IP addresses, or a simple, publicly announced name
    and password could be used. Etc, etc....

    greg small
    Workstation Software Support

    At 03:28 PM 1/19/01 -0800, Carol Sitea wrote:
    >I have a user who is concerned about the ease with which her work home
    >page comes up in searches for her on the web. When she does a search her
    >page is one of the first 5 that appears. She does not want her
    >information to be that readily available to whoever wants to take the
    >effort to look for her. I am not sure what the searches are looking for.
    >
    >I tried changing the title but that didn't make any difference. Can you
    >give me any hints about how to tag things to not be found?
    >
    >Thanks for your help,
    >Carol
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