Robots.txt & freesites ?

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Originally Posted by wolfie

I see your point, but LL owners can't list all possible rules. Using common sence is mostly enaugh to get listed.

What you should have done is kept the link until after you got a reply to your post. But what you did do (according to your post) is delete the link then ask if you should delete the link. In other words you saw this as an opportunity to drop a link, then post a "mattinblack" style thread here. That is not "using your common sense", that is "cheating honest webmasters who have already given you a link back".

Originally Posted by Simon

My name is Simon ... and evidently I am a bad man.

You misunderstood what I said, I was not talking about looking at source code (which is how many people learn HTML). I was talking about poking around in someone's computer looking at files you have no legal access to. And despite what you have read here, a computer is private property, you cannot poke around in them without the owner's permission, that is illegal. RawAlex's comment on passwords is also wrong, passwords came about to stop people who were happy to break the law, not as a way of defining private property.

If someone goes out and leaves their front door open, that does not mean you are allowed to wander in. That is still trespassing. It is the same with computers, just because "the door is open" you cannot just wander in and poke around.

Personally I have no problems with anyone looking into files on an open server if they want to take the risk. But I do have a problem with people posting on any open board that this is OK to do this. Because some green newbie will read the post, believe it, do that, and end up in jail. It is simply not fair to post misinformation if that misinformation is likely to get someone else in trouble.