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If there are no objections, I'll do that. At least for the ones I know... Back messages from the mailing list server should provide most.

Jeff.

After following a few suggestions from Ronan van Riet, I have again updated the components page. It now seperates the taken from the available components, and has a revision history.

For those new to the list or who haven't bookmarked it:

http://www.cdc.net/~daworm/lazarus/components.html

Enjoy ;^) (It's soooo exciting, isn't it)

Jeff.

Looks really good;

Maybe it would be a good idea to provide the e-mail address of each 'owner', so someone who wishes to ask something about a component, or whishes to help with the implementation of a component, has a mail address to mail to.

Making the names a clickable 'mailto' link would be absolutely fabulous...

Michael.

I have one problem with this..

I have found from experience that web spiders will suck your e-mail from the mailto: and put you onto spam mail lists...

I had to remove the mailto from my web page for this very reason... Within weeks.. my volume of spam dropped by up to 90%..

My .02c worth

Brad....

"Where do YOU want Microsoft to go today"
"Why pay for a broken OS, when you can get one that works for free ?"

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I will post it when I get home...

Cliff

I just changed this on my work machine. I will try to remember tonight to do it for my home machine.

As to the email thing, I'll compile a list and then email everyone on it. Reply back with whether you want your name linked as a mail-to, a URL or way, everyone should be happy. It may be tomorrow evening before I can get to it. I have an all day Cribbage tournament tomorrow (before you make any old man comments, I'm only 32!)

Jeff.

Jeff Wormsley wrote

Would it be better to use a link to a home page, rather than a mailto? That way, if you are concerned about the crawler it is likely you have done something about it in your page already.

I personally don't mind a mailto link for my name. Hell my name and email is already all over the place. If a spammer wants to get it there already are a thousand and one places for that. So I don't want to limit a persons ability to contact me for fear of spammers.

Also, wouldn't the crawler have already sucked up all of our email addresses from the mailing list archive page?

Very excellent point. I do have the archives setup in my robots.txt but as I stated if a spam crawler wanted to get at it there isn't much to stop them except for the fact that there isn't a main link to the archive pages except for the one located at the bottom of this email. The archive pages do not have any link from any other page anyplace.

My vote is put a mail to for my name. Hell maybe I would have gotten the RH stock offer. ;-)

Jeff,

On another note. Would it be possible for you to turn of the Reply To: in your mailer? When you force the Reply To: field it overrides the mailing lists setting of this field so when any of us try to reply to your mailing list posts it tries to send it directly to you and not to the list.

Ronan van Riet wrote

There are ways of disallowing crawlers on your site by simple adding a robots.txt. Has anyone had any experience with this?

If it is a reputable crawler this works. It is based on the honor system. They are suppose to first read robots.txt and not process files or directories listed within. It doesn't stop them in anyway from just going ahead and doing it.

Most are but if it is a crawler after email addresses for SPAM I'm not sure if they would honor this file since the activity they are performing isn't very honorable in the first place.

Jeff if you do this post the addresses in a gif that way the spiders can't pick them up. Do not provide a mail to just post the address to a little gif blank.

Cliff

Looks great Jeffrey!!

Thanks for the ultra quick modifications!!

Ronan van Riet
Symantec

Brad,

There are ways of disallowing crawlers on your site by simple adding a robots.txt.
Has anyone had any experience with this?

Ronan van Riet
Symantec

Michael A. Hess wrote

Most are but if it is a crawler after email addresses for SPAM I'm not sure if they would honor this file since the activity they are performing isn't very honorable in the first place.

Would it be better to use a link to a home page, rather than a mailto? That way, if you are concerned about the crawler it is likely you have done something about it in your page already.

Also, wouldn't the crawler have already sucked up all of our email addresses from the mailing list archive page?

Jeff.