robots.txt
Saturday, 17 May 2008 17:20![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pneI just saw this on a forum:
robots.txt is a virtual "keep off the grass" sign.
I like it, and I think it's a fairly apt metaphor. (Especially to explain how it's something that only respectful bots, which have been told specifically to look out for the "sign", will heed, rather than a technical safeguard preventing access.)