Dmoz robots.txt

Is the dmoz.org/world disallowed?

[angiolo]

I had a look at the dmoz.org robots.txt that is.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /editors/
Disallow: /World/.m

What does exactly mean /World/.m

I do not know what the /.m means!

Does it mean that all subdirectories are disallowed?
Does a link in the dmoz/world directories pass Page Rank?

[bird]

The /.m means any file or subdirectory within /World where the name starts with a dot and a lower case m character.

For example:

/World/.m
/World/.mystery.txt
/World/.mozzie/has/a/secret.html

etc...

[angiolo]

Thank you for the clarification!

Does it have any sense in the Dmoz directory?

[bird]

It is possible that the ODP uses files with names similar to ".mozsomething" for internal technical purposes, and doesn't want those indexed by the search engines. That's the most reasonable explanation I can think of without asking staff.