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and subject line Bug#415305: bugs.debian.org: Please allow the BTS to be
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Package: bugs.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
Dear BTS team,
http://bugs.debian.org/robots.txt contains:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
However, it could be useful to have the BTS indexed. There must be a
reason why robots have been disallowed in the past, but is it still
necessary now ?
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Wako, Saitama, Japan
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On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Charles Plessy wrote:
> However, it could be useful to have the BTS indexed. There must be a
> reason why robots have been disallowed in the past, but is it still
> necessary now ?
It's still necessary because robots are stupid and make hundreds of
requests at a single time.
The bts is already fully indexed by hyper estraier, and there are
mirrors of it which have been indexed by google.
See http://www.debian.org/Bug/ and http://merkel.debian.org/~don/cgi/search.cgi
Don Armstrong
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This can't be happening to me. I've got tenure.
-- James Hynes _Publish and Perish_
http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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