Posted by softwarelabus on 08/08/06 14:56

Andy Dingley wrote:
> softwarelabus@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > I wanted to warn all website owners that some evil web hosts like
> > vistapages will periodically place a robots.txt file on your site that
> > disallows all search engines. It happened to me.
>
> OK, so that's pretty evil. Not quite sharks with frickin' laser beams
> on their heads, but it's more evil than you want from people you're
> giving money to.
>
> What did they say about this? How abject was their grovelling apology?
>
> You're not still _with_ these people are you?!
>
>
> > You should also look for this file when you ftp to your site in case
> > your web host places a sneaky server script to make robots.txt
> > invisible only to you.
>
> If I were evil (Mwwaa ha ha ha) I wouldn't place a robots.txt in
> anyone's web root, I'd use some config to serve a standard robots.txt
> for HTTP requests for it, without you even having a file to see. As
> easy for the evil admin to do, and less obvious.



Sometimes I wished some x-virus creator who turned good would write a
god virus. A virus that actually did some good by destroying other
viruses, removing evil disallows in robots.txt from your hosts server.
;-) I know, I know, two wrongs don't make a right ... don't sink to
the level of evil, lol.

Is this such a bad idea? If the government agencies caught a good
virus maker would they be prosecuted or given the nobel price.

just food for thought is all.
Paul

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