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Robots.txt - Where no Blog has Gone Before?

Brett Tabke, the founder of WebmasterWorld (the huge webmaster forum), is writing an humorous blog in his robots.txt file. As he says, “It has a cool retro BBS feel to it”.

I love the Steven Wright (he misspells it Stephen) quotes at the end of some of his posts. His first post from last month:

# As I was messing with the robots.txt for the 1000th time over the last week,
# I had a conversation with myself, that went something like this:
#
# me: Self, can you publish a blog in a robots.txt file?
# self: Sure you can. Robots would just ignore the commented lines.
#
# me: What would be the point?
# self: Fun and merriment. Who knows, you could find world peace in here.
#
# me: Would people still read it?
# self: Probably. If they will read blogger - they’ll read anything
#
# me: Any downside? Any problems with a regularly updated robots.txt?
# self: This is another fine SEO test you’ve gotten us into.
#
# me: But don’t you need to enable comments?
# self: Posting an article and then taking comments? Hey Dufus, it is called
# a FORUM - and everyone knows we already have one of those!
#
# me: I love the idea. It has a cool retro BBS feel to it. I almost want to
# break out my trusty old 64, fire up a copy of Cnet BBS, and start posting
# some zeroday warez dude. lol!
# self: I’m going to try it for awhile. Seems like fun for a change.
#
# The rest is left as an excersize to the reader.
#
# - bt