Posted by David on 08/08/06 17:08

David Cary Hart wrote:
> On 8 Aug 2006 07:16:01 -0700, softwarelabus@yahoo.com opined:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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.
>
> That's putting a bandage on gunshot wound. The real issue is how
> a third party obtained write privileges.

If it was the sysadmin obtaining write permissions is noteven a question.

If it was a mis guided sysadmin who put the said robots.txt file there,
he was just plain wrong. He should of instead of contacted the owner of
the site telling the owner why it is needed and how to go about doing
it. There is no reason that a sysadmin should be screwing with or
adding files to my site, unless something I am doing is causing major
problems. Sorry a 404 error is not good cause. If the sysadmin or the
owner of the site didn't place the robots.txt file there, than there are
possibly other issues that need to be looked at. If the sysadmin did
place said file on his site, then he should by all means change hosting
providers. no if ands or buts.

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