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0 pointsdotancohen9mo ago0 comments

There's a reason we still call the file robots.txt by that name, and not web-scraping.txt or search-engines.txt.

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Yea, the reason is RFC9309.

That's actually a good point, but we have RFCs superceding RFCs all the time. My favorite RFC, 8601, superseded I think half a dozen other RFCs.

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Yea, the reason is RFC9309.

That's actually a good point, but we have RFCs superceding RFCs all the time. My favorite RFC, 8601, superseded I think half a dozen other RFCs.

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