[OSM-talk] tracklog spam!

[Tom Carden]

On 4/10/06, Dan Karran <dan at karran.net> wrote:
> On 4/11/06, Robert Scott <lists at riscott.ukfsn.org> wrote:
>
> > It's not about us reading them, it's about giving their clients google juice
> > to improve their page rankings. So as long as the list is available to web
> > robots it'll be worth their while.
>
> Good point, so some rel=nofollow tags may be a good idea, or just a
> robots.txt excluding crawlers from certain (user editable) parts of
> the site - I think we should keep the wiki open to spiders though.
>

Yes, this would be sensible for anywhere that could potentially carry
external links.  Were the spam tags even in the form of external links
though?  I didn't see them, but from the description I didn't think
they were.

Tom.