Should we eliminate IP address lookup for incoming e-mail?

Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
Wed Feb 28 18:42:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Jason Molenda wrote:
> ... At the very least,
>     sourceware's IP# should be stripped out - the htdig search
>     engine process gropes over all of the web pages on the site,
>     and its activities could skew any http reports.

It shouldn't, since we tell it to look at the files rather than do http.
Though IIRC it does for URLs/files with suffixes not matching its very
limited hardwired mime.types: .htm .html .txt .asc .pdf .ps and .eps

Bother: I can't identify it in the logs.  Where should I look?

brgds, H-P



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