Thanks David, What is strange is that sometimes the robot gets a response of 200 straight away, other times it gets the temporarily moved code followed by the 200.
As I was saying I was wondering if the fact that my server is a "virtul" one? It was an inexpensive solution for hosting and I do not have full control over the server - for instance I can't edit the .htaccess file directly - even for security. To protect a directory I have a utility that writes to it although I can't see it!
I can't telnet to my server but ftp is no problem. My suspicion is that there is something strange going on. As I say I can't see the .htaccess file but I can see the other user's domains that are hosted on the same server! There is probably some redirecting to the same server as you suggest but there is nothing I can really do about that other than getting a proper hosting package or setting up my own server. (which I am thinking of doing).
Google did come back, but I have other suspicions that Google is being "put off" when it gets a 302 when it goes after my robots.txt file. If I had a META redirect on my base page that would look like a page highjack - especially if the wait time was set to zero. But there is no way that robots.txt can do this!
Anyway I was wondering if anyone else has seen this.
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