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A proposal to try to prevent the havoc wreaked by many of the early World-Wide Web robots when they retrieved documents too rapidly or retrieved documents that had side effects (such as voting). The proposed standard for robot exclusion offers a solution to these problems.

(http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots.html).

(1996-03-23)