Re: The Internet Archive robot

Jeremy Sigmon (jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu)
Mon, 23 Sep 1996 10:53:46 -0400 (EDT)


On 23 Sep 1996, Gareth R White wrote:

> I was thinking about this recently, perhaps a new SRE directive would help, to
> indicate at what time of the day / week / month etc a robot can access the
> site, and how many pages / bytes they can retrieve per access.
>
>

I like this. The web masters should have an idea of their load levels and
could exclude robots during some times.

For now a few cron jobs could switch between a few robots.txt files during
appropriate times of the day.

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