Re: robot.polite

Joe Nieten (jln@otdc.com)
Mon, 17 Jun 1996 11:52:26 +0700

>Is there such a robot? Instead of keeping robots at bay why not have a
>protocol which allows permissions? A site could allow access but at
>certain levels. Perhaps keywords could be used so that the program would
>only go so far. There are problems with this, who determines the
>keywords but why not a robot thesaurus of some sort. It can be done if
>there's a protocol perhaps. Just an idea, any comments?
>Brian

I agree. Why can't we define a "configuration" that robots could download
and use whenever they access that pariticular web site? This would allow
administrators to set AccessInterval or something like that. In fact, you
could specify AccessHours 8a - 5p: 15 seconds or something like this to say
that you don't want a robot to access you site more frequently than every 15
seconds between the hours of 8am and 5pm. You could even specify what days
of the week this would apply to.

Eh ... just a thought.

Joe
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