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Old 31-07-2008, 20:37   #13024
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]

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Originally Posted by oblonsky View Post
I trust that the ISPs will ensure that Phorm complies with robots.txt. Their argument for implied consent is weak already but disappears entirely if webmasters are serving them a DENY ALL robots.txt.
I took a look at iplists.com/ and did some reverse lookups, it doesn't appear that PTR's are consistent for all the netblocks listed there. There'd be issues even with a cidr whitelist, some of the listed IP's are in blocks assigned to savis, bejing telecom and BT Fusion. Incidentally, BT wouldn't be planning to buy cached robots.txt data from a certain search partner would they?

Quick CIDR whitelist example
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