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?