What is this Alta-Vista vicious rumour mill stuff on the list recently? :-)
If you have a question, ask the robot author, his email address is on
the robots page...
It would also help if you included the complete referenced article --
I wouldn't be in the least surprised if the person's files in question
were in fact reacheable from the web, and therefore findable by any browser
or robot.
>How does one keep documents private? I sure don't want my personal
>correspondence sitting out on someone's database just because my home directory
>happens to be readable!
To protect pages from other people, configure your server to return
"access denied" for them...
-- Martijn
Email: m.koster@webcrawler.com
WWW: http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/mak.html