On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 09:33:24PM -0500, John Hagerson wrote:
Through my contacts with people as part of the CD and DVD distribution effort, I had a recent contact with a person who was confused by something that she found on the shelves of our library.
She found a book that she was interested in reading, but she could not figure out how to download it. After some back and forth, I found that she had apparently used one of the full text search engines which found a citation of an interesting book within one of the copyright renewals files.
Hi, John. This describes an FAQ we get to help@pglaf.org at least once or twice per week. Yes, it might make sense to set our robots.txt file to eliminate these files from search engine indexing. I'm cc'ing Marcello, so he can tell us whether this seems worthwhile given our system stats and such. - Greg
Of course, because the copyright has been renewed, this particular book will not be available on PG for quite a while.
This may be an isolated instance. However, would it make sense to prevent the full text search engines from indexing the copyright renewal files? Would it make sense to add some text to the PG index page to indicate that the copyright renewal files list books that are NOT in PG, rather than books that are?
Thank you. John Hagerson
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