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arjieyesterday at 10:02 PM3 repliesview on HN

Anubis is fine if you want to block bots that are bothering you, but I never understood why they don't have robots.txt at the root level too. I happily obey that for my private crawler. I suppose you don't want to duplicate implementations. Fair enough. I guess I should add an Anubis detector so I can just blacklist because that person clearly doesn't want bots.


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mitxelayesterday at 11:15 PM

In this day and age, only good bots, the ones you actually want, obey robots.txt. You obtain no benefit by having a restrictive one.

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xenayesterday at 10:04 PM

One of the standard library rules enables robots.txt passthrough by default. I can't control people not choosing to use it.

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