On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Kynn Bartlett wrote:
> * robots.txt has pretty much been around as long as there have been
> web search engines; it's something that evolved early on in the
> creation of the web. Thus, most webmasters _should_ know about
> it; it's an official internet standard, right?
More or less true.
And now that some of the search engines are also looking
at the Meta Header "Robots follow, index" or "Robots
no-index, no-follow" that seems to be evolving as a
semi-unofficial, pseudo-standard, individual pages
can opt out of web engine indexing.
> * Mailing lists, on the other hand, have been around the net long,
> might come and tell you, "okay, you have to put in X-Don't-Slurp"
Findmail's header for non-submission is not the same as
excite.com's, or any of the other things that archive usenet.
How many people want to add 30 headers, so their message
won't be archived in places they have never heard of, by
people they don't know, for unknown reasons?
Findmail.com seems to think that that is an acceptable
practice, though.
I'd seriously consider a SLAPP against FindMail.COM, except
I don't have pockets that are deep enough.
OTOH, setting FindMail.com up, as a defendent in an EEOC
suit does have a certain amount of appeal.
xan
jonathon
grafolog@netcom.com
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