How About a SWC "Secure" Forum?

[Uboat509]

On a related topic I have often considered asking if any of our military or DOD civilian members would be interested in starting some conversations on the SIPR. I am not really sure if that would be practical or worth the effort and it would exclude a lot of our members but it is something I have been kicking around in my head for some time.

SFC W

[SWCAdmin]

Ditto to SWJED's post.

Not "everything" on this site is indexed by, e.g., Google. The bots aren't members, so they can't get to the forums that you have to be signed in to see. That includes the Members Only parent forum and all its child forums. Similarly, those forums do not feed to the RSS feed or to the "new threads" section on our SWJ home page. Which is both a blessing and a curse.

We have restricted our site at the server level, not user permissions, from most known malicious bots. The site is open to the "good" ones like Googlebot, etc.

This sort of semi-non-public thing is often referred to as the darknet -- not really secure, but not generally open to just anyone.

While this is pseudo-privileged, it is NOT SIPR. Absolutely no classified.

FOUO is a handling instruction, not a classification, and is always a red-headed step child. There are plenty of darknet FOUO sites out there. We have no intention of being one. To keep it simple, no FOUO, either. Members only or otherwise.

[Stu-6]

On a related topic I have often considered asking if any of our military or DOD civilian members would be interested in starting some conversations on the SIPR. I am not really sure if that would be practical or worth the effort and it would exclude a lot of our members but it is something I have been kicking around in my head for some time.

SFC W

An easy way to that might be to use the intelink forums and just post some sort of advertisment for it here. You would get some of the folks from here and it would be pretty little effort. Just a thought.

[Nathan Hale]

You should be able to use robots.txt to dictate what is and is not indexed by Google, if I remember correctly. However, keeping at least a few areas open enables new members to stumble across the community and expands the membership base.

[Ken White]

Welcome to the Board. Why not go here LINK and give us a brief intro by tacking a new comment on the Thread. You can scroll up and get an idea what others have said. Thanks.