Blocks for: failing to obey the robot.txt; caching or publishing pages elsewhere; site scraping; or excessive connections.

This site has strict policies associated with its use. The materials are NOT to be cached except for the first page nor may the other materials appear upon any search results; descriptions have been provided within the header of the pages for linking purposes; are NOT public domain; and may NOT be scraped.

There has been an agreement among the major search engines regarding the format of the robot.txt file, and regarding connection delays and other aspects. Those who fail to adhere or violate those agreements, or ignore them, will be banned from this site. All engines/spiders/bots which have made it to this point have already received 403s or scaper warnings previously.

Attempts to circumvent the restrictions by using multiple connections from the same Search Engine will be handled as normal site scraper activities and will cause banning.

IF the respective search engine has failed to provide legitimate usage of the site [providing a reasonable amount of traffic] there is obviously no need to allow that particular spider or group of spiders to access the site. This site is not provided for the search engines or others to make money from its contents.

Attempts to use the site to optimize search engine bases, e.g., by faking usage, faking browser identifiers, or other SEO like activities, will be deemed as an abuse of this site and the offenders will be banned either temporarily or permanently.

Parties wishing to discuss being blocked or otherwise, may contact the webmaster.

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