# /robots.txt for www.blastwave.org #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- # The following is a comment located in the robots.txt file at www.sun.com # which I preserved # Dennis Clarke dclarke@blastwave.org #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Mon Feb 2 11:59:27 PST 1998, Fred Elliott # A NOTE TO THOSE WHO'D BOTHER TO LOOK AT THIS FILE: # # Bertrand Meyer's excellent "comp.risks" posting about the potential # for misusing "robots.txt" files # (http://www.eiffel.com/private/meyer/robots.html) includes a snapshot # of the contents of this file here on www.sun.com. # # In the article, Bertrand speculates that the directories listed below # contain proprietary information. Well, they don't. They do, though, # contain information that we'd prefer people register for before they # download it. # # The purpose of the "robots.txt" file is to keep these directories # from being indexed so that the average user doesn't stumble across them # while performing searches, and those that should be accessing these # directories will do so through the URL that requires them to register. # Of course, having the contents of this file advertised in "comp.risks" # diminishes its purpose. Thanks Bertrand. ;-) # # If you do actually go to the trouble of figuring out how to download # the files without registering, what you'll end up with is 1 or 2MB of # stuff that is meaningless to you unless you have purchased an # Ultra AX board from Sun. So, please do purchase an Ultra AX board, # but then you might as well use the URL you'll be given along with it. #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- # User-agent: * Disallow: /sitestats User-agent: Slurp Disallow: / User-agent: msnbot Disallow: / User-agent: Teoma Disallow: / User-agent: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/crawler Disallow: / User-agent: BecomeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Shopwiki Disallow: / User-agent: Accoona-AI-Agent Disallow: / User-agent: Tasapspider Disallow: / User-agent: Exabot Disallow: / User-agent: dotbot Disallow: /