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    1. Re: KindredKonnections
    2. I think it is FamilyDiscovery that charges and sells. On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:31:18 -0500 Margaret McCleskey <[email protected]> writes: > Are we sure that we are talking about the right web site (Kindred > Konnections)? There is another, one whose name I can't find right > now, > that I have read about recently that is selling access to links to > other > web sites. The name, as I recall, is similar to ancestry.com (but > is > not them). > > Margaret > > Tom Thatcher wrote: > > > > > > > > I will be most glad if somebody just send us simple instructions > for > > > setting up robots.txt file. > > > > Here is the META tag; copy this into your html file in between the > <HEAD> > > and </HEAD> tags (you only need to do this for the main page, > usually named > > index.html) > > > > <META name="robots" content="noindex"> > > > > The robots.txt protocol is explained at this site > > > > <http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/exclusion.html> > > > > However, it explains that the robots.txt file only works when it > is > > installed in the root directory of the server. If your personal > homepage is > > hosted by another site (like rootsweb, or your ISP) putting a > robots.txt > > file in your own directory will not work (according to the site). > > > > The other problem is that the robots.txt and META robot tags are > voluntary. > > If KK is really indexing other sites and then charging people to > see them > > through their frame, they probably don't respect anti-robot > protocols > > anyway. > > > > I'm going to try that no frames javascript, though. Thanks! > > > > -- > > Tom Thatcher > > [email protected] > > <http://members.rpa.net/~thatcher> > > <http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=thatcher-th> > > > > ==== COPYRIGHT Mailing List ==== > > Support RootsWeb - > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > > > > ============================== > > Visit ROOTS-L, the Internet's oldest and largest genealogical > > mailing list: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/roots-l/ > > > ==== COPYRIGHT Mailing List ==== > Support RootsWeb - > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > > ============================== > Search over 64,000,000 records in the Social Security Death Index: > http://ssdi.rootsweb.com >

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