RE: alta vista and virtualvin.com

Michael De La Rue (mikedlr@indy.unipress.waw.pl)
Fri, 28 Jun 1996 16:12:22 +0200 (MDT)


On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Ann Cantelow wrote:

> I am someone who runs one of these problem sites. When I realized
> the mistake I had made in not setting up a proper robots.txt file (after
> I had caused problems, unfortunately), I was happy to put all my
> offending scripts in a separate directory and exclude them. I don't see
> where anyone aware of the problem would ever want any output from these
> types of scripts indexed. Wouldn't there always be a top-level html
> page that would be enough of a reference? Perhaps you could add an
> education step when putting such sites on your s---list, and send the
> site an automated note pointing out the problem?

I think that the specific thing which gives the search engines the value

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