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---- Fast Spider only checked for my robots.txt


coffeelover - 7:41 pm on Apr 14, 2003 (gmt 0)


I was hit by the Fast webcrawler today, but it only looked at my non-existant robots.txt

Do I need a robots.txt file to not scare off some spiders?

Here is the sole log entry:
cr036r01-2.sac2.fastsearch.net - - [14/Apr/2003:14:55:30 -0400] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 404 278 "-" "FAST-WebCrawler/3.8 (atw-crawler at fast dot no; [fast.no...]

No other entries.

Is this normal? Will it be back?


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