Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> writes: > On 4 Jun 2002, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > Really? Why would they do that? And what sort of query would a > > spambot use in a search engine to start off it's traversal? I don't > > see any value added in going through the intermediate layer -- rather > > the reverse, since a spambot would want *not* to respect robots.txt > > exclusions, for example. > > But where would the spambot get the URL for your site to start with?