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Date:      Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:56:53 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Free BSD in Googles's Index
Message-ID:  <20030418005653.GA93673@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E9F36E9.3080506@potentialtech.com>
References:  <000701c30532$0ea7fda0$6510200a@corp.google.com> <3E9F36E9.3080506@potentialtech.com>

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On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 07:21:13PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> Ashley Gillard wrote:
> >Dear Free BSD Representative:
> >
> >Our crawl team has discovered that Google is currently blocked from
> >crawling your site by the robot.txt that is on your site. We would like
> >to index your site at http://bento.freebsd.org to provide you better
> >coverage and are interested in working with you to do this.=20
> >
> >Google's mission is to deliver the best search experience on the
> >Internet by making the world's information universally accessible and
> >useful. To find out more about Google.com visit:
> >http://www.google.com/webmasters/.
> >
> >I look forward to hearing from you.
>=20
> First off, bento is a ports build cluster and it's probably impractical
> to have google index it, as the information probably changes before it
> can even reach your index.

Correct, it's not appropriate for google to index bento.  It contains
tens of gigabytes of log files.

> If you still think it would be practical to alter the robots.txt file,
> it's probably best to contact Satoshi Asami (asami@freebsd.org) as he
> appears to maintain that site.

Nope, that's mine.

Kris

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