Liebe Forumer,
hab heute erstmals eine interessante, automatisch generierte Mail von einem Robot erhalten, der nicht wie die Suchmaschinen-Robots Seiteninhalte frisst und an seine Suchdatenbank uebermittelt, sondern von einem, der Links checkt, gleichzeitig versucht, den Seitenanbieter zu ermitteln (z.B. wenn es geeignete Meta-Tags gibt), und dann 404-Errors an die angegebene Mailadresse meldet. Das liest sich dann so:
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"I noticed that your page: http://selfaktuell.teamone.de/links/javascript.htm
contained a link to: http://www.rabich.de/javascript_einfuehrung/.
The page at http://www.rabich.de/javascript_einfuehrung/ cannot currently be accessed because of the following error: 404 File not found.
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Nun, ich neme mal an, irgendein freundlicher SELF-User hat SELFHTML (aktuell) dort angemeldet. Finde ich - im Gegensatz zu anderen solcher unfreiwilligen Anmeldungen - ganz prima, muss ich sagen! Wollen wir mal hoffen, dass die Sache wirklich dauerhaft spam-frei bleibt. Dann waere das wirklich ein praktischer Service. Oder was haltet ihr davon?
viele Gruesse
Stefan Muenz