Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 02/08/06 00:09

[I've proposed f'ups to what seems the least off-topic group...]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Phil Earnhardt wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 19:28:31 +0000, "Alan J. Flavell"
>
> >You'd better not try that on a wpoison web site! ;-)
> >http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/
>
> Go look at the "safety" page on that site.

By all means. My own references to a wpoison server have done no harm
to the fact that my URLs seem well-indexed at the bona fide search
services.

> wpoison uses the Robot Exclusion Protocol already discussed here;
> only programs that ignore the robots.txt guidelines that should wind
> up in an infinite maze of twisty passages -- all different.

Right

> Now, it's a certainty that there are poisoned sites that don't honor
> the REP;

And indeed we see them merrily trawling away, in the logs of that
wpoison server. Not just the initial wpoison page to which I'm
pointing, but then recursing their way through the "twisty passages"
to which you refer.

My links have been in place, unchanged, for well over a year (in fact,
I have to confess that I had forgotten all about them after a while,
and only recently remembered they were there), and the logs on the
wpoison server show that the address-trawlers haven't tired of the fun
yet.

cheers

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