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Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] apache access log -- "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 404 284


Andre Pang wrote:
>  i think that all web search engines respect the
> robots.txt file.

I missed your humour tag. Unfortunately, many search engines ignore
robots.txt, which is why there was a discussion on poison and similar
revenge tactics in the archives. A good example of ones that ignore it
are the ones harvesting email addresses.


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