On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Brad Jorsch (Anomie), 07/07/2014 17:37:
> > And the robots.txt for the new
> > version of the site denies everything, likely because the new owners
> don't
> > want the redirects or other old content showing up in Google searches.
> But
> > this has the unfortunate side effect that IA removes all the old content
> > from public access.
>
> This is not correct. If you can reproduce it, please file a bug, but
> it's not how it's supposed or said to work.
> I've pasted some links where you can find additional information like
> this at
>
> https://archive.org/post/1019415/retroactive-robotstxt-removal-of-past-crawls-aka-oakland-archive-policy
> (also reposting an elaborated version of my message of this morning).
>

<Still my own personal views, in no way representing any position of WMF or
anyone else>

I'm confused. You say this is not correct, but then you post a link to a
post of your own that does not refute it and that has many links to people
confirming it.
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