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Originally Posted by Dephormation
Keep in mind the comments here; robots is a method of exclusion not a method of inclusion.
In other words robots is the same old opt out idiocy. You can't follow an opt out model of copyright abuse, violation of privacy, communication interception etc. |
Yes - I am bearing that in mind and I agree, hence the caveats in my post and in my email to BT about the fact that webmaster opt-OUT is no substitute for explicit informed consent.
But nevertheless my aim is to create maximum confusion and embarrassment and extra work for my own ISP by criticising the method they are suggesting, not just on legal grounds, but because it doesn't even work practically - it lowers their general credibility when the explanations they give about website opt-OUT don't even apply to their own customer-base ISP hosted webspace.
What about VM customer webspace? Does that work the same way?
What have VM said about webmaster opt-out and robots.txt? Can it be used on VM customer webspace? Has anyone asked VM about it?