WJhonson@aol.com wrote in message news:bde.47fa0fc9.375ac492@aol.com... In a message dated 6/5/2009 10:48:36 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, philippe.wiki@gmail.com writes:

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Pardon the dumb question, but do we have a "{{nomirror}}" or similar feature? If so, some combination of {{noindex}}, {{nomirror}}, and flagged revisions might be a temporary panacea...>>

Any person can mirror any article. A person does not obey hidden robot commands :)

That's why I rated the password protection option as higher. Beyond password protection for files, a system can also hav Read, Write, and Permit options given to specific users, groups, or programs for a file. Note that if a user has permit access, then they can give themselves permission to read and write a file. Outside of wikipedia, files hav less credibility, so even if some information escapes, it does not hav a large collective stamp of approval until it is available at wikipedia proper. I was on a system that could prevent you from disassembling or recreating a program with the debugger. Give read permission only to the run program. It was called Michigan Terminal System. Similarly, I was able to append files with a program called BOUL:MEETING, and I did not need direct write access, so I did not get it, unless I created it. It might even still exist at the UofA. Having someone big approve their own bio here should encourage donations. No read access to the IP means no mirror. MTS had everything the internet has today, except size and 24bit+30fps+640by480 graphics. It charged you about a penny for every screen of text, though.