Tobias DiPasquale on 5 May 2004 20:36:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Do no robots texts work?


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On Wednesday 05 May 2004 15:59, George Theall wrote:
| I maintain a few small sites, monitor my logs pretty closely, and have a
| couple of traps for bad robots, including a bogus setting in my
| robots.txt files telling robots not to visit a non-existent area of my
| webs.  While I do find plenty of examples of 'bots that completely
| ignore restrictions in robots.txt, I can't recall the last time I saw

Specifically, Yahoo!'s Slurp and MSN's crawler _WILL_ ignore robots.txt 
sometimes, but its not clear when (not clear to me, anyway).

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Tobias DiPasquale
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