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Posted by softwarelabus on 08/09/06 02:58
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Andy Dingley wrote:
> > Adrienne Boswell wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I really doubt that this was done with evil intent, probably a misguided
> >>system administrator who got tired of seeing 404 errors,
> >
> >
> > I'm cynical enough to suspect that it was evil intent, because hosting
> > companies can reduce costs by reducing traffic to small sites on
> > flat-fee hosting plans.
> > No robots, no search hits, no traffic.
> >
>
> I doubt it, Andy. They wouldn't stay in business for long if they did.
There are too many newbies don't read hosting ratings, so they'll
probably stay in business. Vistapages really has horrible ratings.
Truth is I don't play with robots.txt files. It could have been from a
hacker, but I've talked with vista SA's too much to know they're not
innocent. IMHO they really have no morals.
Paul
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