> From: Professor of Information Technologies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: suggestion
> Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 00:23:40 -0400
> 
> How about a default distribution of robots.txt that
> blocks email siphon programs like
> 
> www.extractorpro.com and any others you can
> find?
> 
> I think they're a menace, and I suspect most
> users of your server software would agree...
> 
> a

Couldn't hurt, but does anybody think that people unscrupulous enough to
strip-mine the Web for potential spam victims will develop some
principles wrt robots.txt? I doubt it.

-- 
Jerry Baker

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