Re: changes to robots.txt

DA (k3is@UnbSJ.CA)
Tue, 12 Nov 1996 21:33:47 -0400 (AST)


On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Rob Hartill wrote:

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

ok, sorry....

I doubt anyone out there has a definite answer to your question, but it
would certainly be interesting to do ......why don't you give it a shot
yourself? Create a robot that traverses the Web, it would only asks for
'robots.txt', if it is there increase your counter.... :-)

Regards,
Qusay H. Mahmoud

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