On Monday, December 01, 2003, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote...

JA>> The archives are publicly available via a website...

> I have no problem with the archives being available via the Web,
> however I don't think a "robots.txt" file would be too difficult to
> implement (I could offer some help if necessary). There is no
> obvious reason why spiders should be encouraged to crawl the archive
> site!

a) Most spiders ignore robots.txt now, so there isn't really any point.
b) We (moderators, not me personally) don't manage the archive
   services.

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Jonathan Angliss
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