Re: Anyone know who owns this one?

David Reilly (dodo@fan.net.au)
Sat, 03 Aug 1996 11:42:01 +1000


At 09:18 AM 8/2/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Hey folks!
>
>Is the "robots@webcrawler.com" mailing list the "robots-gripes" list or
>the list for developers trying to make user agent software better? I
>don't know if there is a "real" official robots-gripe list, but such a
>distinction could be beneficial. E.g. developer tips, instructions, q&a
>etc. could continue on one list, and then people who are pursuing the
>perpetrator of some bad bot or just unhappy about user agents in general
>could have another list somewhere. It could be "badbots@webcrawler.com"
>or "robots-gripes@webcrawler.com"

If a robot in progress, is causing a problem, then its a fair bet that the
authour will be listening in on the robots@webcrawler.com list. I wonder if
every authour would be considerate enough to subscribe to a robots-gripes
list however....

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