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Re: [Last-Call] Last Call: <draft-koster-rep-06.txt> (Robots Exclusion Protocol) to Informational RFC

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Wed, 09 March 2022 20:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Last-Call] Last Call: <draft-koster-rep-06.txt> (Robots Exclusion Protocol) to Informational RFC
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John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
    > Someone already suggested moving the file to a different location, which
    > considering that all robots.txt files have been in the same place for 25
    > years, seems like a bad idea.

Since redirects are explicitely supported (but limited), we could trivially encourage
people to change the location, provided they leave a redirect.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
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