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The meaning is reasonably clear to me: Robots.txt says "Don't archive this data. When the website dies, all the information dies with it." It's a kind of death
by stickfigure 1y ago
The meaning is reasonably clear to me: Robots.txt says "Don't archive this data. When the website dies, all the information dies with it." It's a kind of death pact.
- QuercusMax 1y agoThat's not a suicide note, though, in any way I understand it.
- stickfigure 1y agoIt's the inevitable suicide of the data. Language gets weird when you anthropomorphize abstract things like "data", but I thought it was clever enough. YMMV.
- QuercusMax 1y agoThe suicide of the data listed in robots.txt? How? The whole point of the article is they ignore what you have written in your robots.txt, so they'll archive it regardless of what you say.
- stickfigure 1y agoCorrect, they are challenging your written wish for data-suicide.