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Why did this robot ignore my /robots.txt?

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It could be that it was written by an inexperienced software writer. Occasionally schools set their students "write a web robot" assignments. But, these days it's more likely that the robot is explicitly written to scan your site for information to abuse: it might be collecting email addresses to send email spam, look for forms to post links ("spamdexing"), or security holes to exploit.

See Can I block just bad robots?

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