When I ask a robot to come and visit my site, I also
give it permission (or not) to notify me about any
bad links it finds. Any robots without permission
keep quiet. I as administrator of a website actually
get some value from the robot vermin infesting my site. :-)
Terry.
--- On Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:16:53 -0500 Rob Turk <rturk@austin.ibm.com> wrote:
>Kevin Hoogheem wrote:
>>
>> Well ya notice I didnt say it was a mandatory thing each robot
>> should have to do, I was merly suggesting it for some robots
>> might want to do or probly would come down to a robot that
>> was just ment for this type of activty.
>
>I said it would be a breach of netiquette for bot authors to have their
>program notify ANYONE but the author or user of that bot of anything
>they find. Perhaps it wouldn't be. I think that for this to be a
>viable surrogate for a person to browse lots and lots of webspace, then
>each agent should report its findings to one person. Not their
>user/author/master and every e-mail message desitnation they can get
>their grubby little mittens on.
>