who/what uses robots.txt

HipCrime (HipCrime@HipCrime.com)
Wed, 20 Nov 1996 23:35:48 -0800


Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> wrote:

> The people on this list should take care not to put too many
> things to robots.txt, because it will make authors of such
> utilities skeptical whether they should implement the support
> at all ("_my_ utility is _not_ a robot").

Definitions are _not_ "too many things". Failing to be able
to agree on the meaning of the word "robot" is to admit that
you can't define a "robot" standard. Period.

... Robert
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