Re: OT: Lycos Multimedia and image harvesting?

[Mark Roberts]

"William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>The next months gallery will incorporate a feature that will
>hopefully limit the harvesting of images. Rob Studdert put a
>meta tag into the page which should cause the image harvesters
>to pass us by without affecting legitimate text based search
>engines. The problem, of course, is if the harvesters follow the
>rules or not.
>Bill

Most legitimate search engine spiders (and I'll count Lycos among these,
regardless of what I think about their harveting my images and keeping local
copies) will follow the robots.txt file in your root directory. I don't know
about meta tags, though.
Non-legitimate harvesters (spambot address harvesters and the like) do whatever
they damn well feel like.

Mark
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