11 Feb
2013
11 Feb
'13
4:36 a.m.
On 02/11/2013 03:31 AM, don kretz wrote:
I'm puzzled. I think PG is an organization about making it as easy as possible to download free ebooks. What problem is being addressed by making it more restrictive and difficult?
By making it difficult for bots to access the main site, we give humans a chance to use the site. We require friendly "bots" to identify themselves so we can contact their owners in case they misbehave or block them altogether. See also wikipedia's reasoning: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy Regards -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org