robots txt to prevent crawling of freesites

[DJilla]

I've generally been of the mind that if its not in the rules you can pretty much do what you want and LL's when they encounter these odd situations (obviously only a few are doing this kind of thing) the LL has the responsibility to keep their listings up after confirming by hand or whatever. I admire Preacher for going that extra mile of rekeying his sites in when his script showed this links were disallowed by robots.txt. Also, there is the real politick that its probably not a good idea if LL's begin just ignoring your sites because you use this technique.

I guess what I became worried about was if picXX was aware of the other topics we were pointing out here and what they mean to him. He obviously is searching and taking advice on "best practices" by using the robots scheme but it seems he may have been frightened into taking it down immediately BEFORE he was able to get his pages in possible order to avoid the duplicate content penalty.

Does he clearly understand now that he should go back to his pages and change the text content, alt tags, and metatags on the mirrors etc AND maybe even re-submit some of them?. I hope so.