Re: changes to robots.txt

Rob Hartill (robh@imdb.com)
Tue, 12 Nov 1996 19:27:40 +0000 (GMT)


DA wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Rob Hartill wrote:
>
>>
>> Out of curiosity, how widely used is robots.txt ? Anyone have some
>> figures ?.
>>
>
>Well, look it this way:
>
>Check your log files (access_log) and (error_log) or whatever their names
>on your system. Do:
>grep 'robots.txt' access_log | more and
>grep 'robots.txt' access_error | more

that doesn't tell me how widely used robots.txt is out there, only
what's accessing my site.

..just in case anyone else misread the question.

-- 
Rob Hartill.       Internet Movie Database Ltd.    http://www.imdb.com/  
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