Re: BSE-Slurp/0.6
Mordechai T. Abzug (mabzug1@gl.umbc.edu)
Sun, 3 Mar 1996 11:54:14 -0500 (EST)
"GVC" == Gordon V. Cormack spake thusly:
GVC>
GVC>
GVC> The robot identifying itself as
GVC>
GVC> User-Agent: BSE-Slurp/0.6
GVC> From: gauthier@cs.berkeley.edu
GVC>
GVC> read but did not heed my /robots.txt file. Does anybody know where
GVC> this one comes from? It appears in tons of agent logs, but I don't
GVC> see an entry for it in "known robots."
The gent gave you contact information (gauthier@cs.berkeley.edu); why don't
you use it? Seems to me like he's got his heart in the right place, but has a
major bug in his robots.txt parser.
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