Posted by patrick j on 01/17/07 20:33

On Jan 17, 2007 dorayme wrote:

> You have had general advice about password protecting pages. What
> I do is simply put stuff up in a folder on domains under my
> control, the addresses highly unlikely to be quickly stumbled
> upon. And anyone who does is highly unlikely to have any interest
> or connection with you or client or likely to cause any problems.
> It takes a while to get noticed in search engines.
>
> Not saying you should not password protect (it might even look
> geeky and neat for the client!), just that is it worth it given
> the very small risks involved?

That is appealing in its simplicity but I fear that the search engines
will have their bots doing their thing and then the pages will be found
that way.

> Unless... unless... PATRICK! WHAT IS THIS SITE ABOUT? <g>

This is between me and MI5/MI6/CIA :)

--
Patrick
Brighton, UK

<http://www.patrickjames.me.uk>

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