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by pseudalopex 1044 days ago
It was correct. And archive.org used this self inflicted problem to justify disregarding robots.txt.

https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...

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Oh thank you for the update, that's great news! Agree with their position 100%.
> Agree with their position 100%.

Including the part where they blamed anyone but themselves for hiding old snapshots when robots.txt changed?

no I didn't see that in there, I just agree that robots.txt makes sense for web crawlers but not archival purposes