REL="nofollow" and Mailman

Was your Mailman mailing list ever devastated by spambots? If yes, you may consider adding REL="nofollow" attributes to all postings sent to your mailing list.

Usage:

  • copy the script somewhere to your server
  • edit $searchpath - point it to Mailman's "archives" directory
  • if you have any domains you wish to whitelist - add them to @excludedomains
  • start the script by hand - you will see which files were converted
  • add a cronjob in /var/spool/mailman:

That's it! The script is Mailman specific, but can be easily modified to add REL="nofollow" attributes to other HTML files, too.


add_nofollow.pl:

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