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robots.txt
May 24th, 2019
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I've run a little disallow robots.txt file on this gopher hole for
a while. Now there's been more discussion about its inclusion on
gopher for gopher search engines. This leads me to a little
problem.

My robots.txt file is not meant for gopher crawlers. I created it
because I do not want my site crawled by web crawlers trawling
through proxies to gopher. There's some question as to whether
a robots.txt file is effective in that way (technically the proxy
should have one, not the site itself), but I thought it better
than nothing.

Now I have a dilemma. I would very much like my site to be crawled
by Veronica-2 and other gopher-centric search engines, but I don't
want Google plopping my burrowy-thoughts on the web. What's
a gopher to do?