[pchelpers] Re: News:Wikipedia shuts out link spammers

Scott McNay wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 9:07:18 PM, you wrote:
> 
>>> This surprises me; I'd thought they were doing this already.
> 
> JD> Many of us may be surprised at how many web sites don't use these
> JD> basic protective methods.
> 
> I mean, I thought I'd heard that they were using this already; that
> was where I heard of the nofollow thing in the first place.
> 
Well now it is for real, at least on my FFA pages. From now on the 
script will automatically add nofollow directive to all new links. 
People can still submit them and the pages work, but in future, this 
will mean they are not indexed by search engines as part of my website. 
If anyone wants the perl code I used to patch them, just ask.

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