robot defined

HipCrime (HipCrime@HipCrime.com)
Fri, 22 Nov 1996 07:52:37 -0800


David M Banes <dbanes@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> If a human is controlling an application it's not a robot,

Here's a definition that's OK by me. Since ActiveAgent
is controlled by a human (the documentation uses the word
"driven"), it should never access the ROBOTS.TXT file and
will never need to obey the robots-exclusion "standard".

Thanks for the lively discussion.

... Robert
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