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Guidelines for Robot Writers

https://web.archive.org/web/20050422045839/http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/guidelines.html

“This document contains some suggestions for people who are thinking about developing Web Wanderers (Robots), programs that traverse the Web. Reconsider Are you sure you really need a robot? They put a strain on network and processing resources all over the world, so consider if your purpose is...” (from the page’s text)

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