Re: Lycos unfriendly robot

Reinier Post (reinpost@win.tue.nl)
Thu, 19 Oct 1995 19:01:00 +0100 (MET)

You (Murray Bent) write:
>
>
>According to Reinier Post:
>>Lycos wants to index as many documents on a site it can find. This
>>robot has only made two requests, and it didn't even retrieve our home page
>>(/ is redirected to /win/, which is the actual home page). Perhaps it doesn't
>>follow redirections.
>
>>>Nick
>
>>--
>>Reinier Post reinpost@win.tue.nl
>
>That may be fine if you have shares in Lycos or something. Do you?

I don't follow your logic. *What* is fine if I have shares in Lycos?
The fact that this visit was made by something that doesn't follow
redirections, and therefore is unlikely to be a Lycos robot?

>mj

For some reason you seem to bear a grudge against Lycos. If my posting
did anything to tear open any old wounds, I apologise.

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Reinier Post						 reinpost@win.tue.nl
a.k.a. <A HREF="http://www.win.tue.nl/win/cs/is/reinpost/">me</A>