Re: robot.polite

Leslie Cuff (lez@fastfwd.com)
Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:32:26 -0230


quite a reasonable suggestion to agree on an open global configuration
record (like robots.txt but more powerful). Can we agree on a short list
of configuration directives and do it quickly?

allow
deny
preferred indexing time
preferred indexing frequency

and perhaps, for distributed indexing, we might have hooks to a local index
file with a standardized format... so that an offsite index could get the
local index in one fell swoop?

Something like
altavista-format: /path/indexfile.db
or
more generally,

local index format:
local index path:

les
nf.ca