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Old 11-06-2008, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Site Booster
I didn't see why you've quoted one of my sentences
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So, even for several search engine agents, crawlers, spiders, ants or whatever they are called, we aren't allowed to use more than one robots.txt.
We do agree on a fact, but
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So even for ..., we aren't allowed...
reads (to me) like you're describing a problem. My reply started
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But...
because I'm explaining how the apparent problem is not really a problem at all.

Does that help? - I can sometimes be over-sensitive to nuance in written language. Such as:

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I didn't see...
which means that at some time in the past, you would have said "I don't see...", but you are not likely to say it now (you could see, starting some time after that). You would use "I didn't see..." in a post asking why I quoted your sentence, but then understood why before you finished writing the post. I imagine you meant "I don't see...", but what kind of pedant would point out the difference between the present tense and past tense on a forum thread about robots.txt?

If English is sometimes difficult to use, blame the French and the Germans, it's usually the bits borrowed from their languages that cause the trouble.
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