BT WEBWISE: What's it about?

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BT's Retail Internet Network was trialled by us between March and September last year, as an alternative option to just using our own Central pipes.  We simply wanted to see whether it would make a viable option for some of our broadband products. We have around 250 customers connecting to that network.  No new customers are being added to RIN, or have been, since last year. Even though they are connecting on part of BT's network however, they aren't being offered the option of opting in to BT's Webwise trial.  Those connecting to RIN using the username@plusdsl2.net realm can change to Plusnet Centrals by changing to @plusdsl.net and restarting their modem/router.
The avatar Poppy is a cropped, scanned-in photo of one of the old Force9 Internet connection CDs.  I think it was the one with a dark-purple cover with lightning flashes on it from the days when k56flex and ISDN were all the rage.

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Update:
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.telecom.broadband/browse_thread/thread/d98931049f5c3657?hl=en-GB#

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old news already on two other threads

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Old News!
http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,61201.msg562168.html#msg562168

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Plusnet bans Phorm and/or publication of these threads 
http://community.plus.net/robots.txt/

User-agent: *
Disallow:

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Wen did PlusNet put the "robots" file on the Server?  Google used to index the Forum daily!
Isnt the search engine run by Google?  If that is the case no wonder the search engine is up the spout!

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You lot can put your tin foil hats away. 
I can assure you that the google spiders are still indexing the forums as I've just checked after reading this thread.

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I hav no tin foil hat, the "robots" file on the Server is real, I am not jumping to conclusions, not like you! 
User-agent: *
Disallow:

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just got this of Google

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BT WEBWISE: What's it about? | Community Site Plusnet bans Phorm and/or publication of these threads Undecided http:// community.plus.net/robots.txt/ User-agent: * Disallow: ... community.plus.net/forum/?topic=70440.msg562991 - 9 hours ago - Similar pages More results from community.plus.net »

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Quote from: Midnight

I hav no tin foil hat, the "robots" file on the Server is real, I am not jumping to conclusions, not like you!    User-agent: * Disallow:

Gary,
This means that there are NO restrictions on indexing this server.  From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt:

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This example allows all robots to visit all files because the wildcard "*" specifies all robots: User-agent: * Disallow:

It's better to define a robots.txt than to not have one at all.
So, tinfoil hats away please everyone - Community is indexed by Google (almost continually, actually).
B.

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Thanks Baz for the link, I was wrong  :-[, the code to keep all robots out is:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
But I do NOT have a tinfoil hat. 

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You can find out more about Tin Foil Hat's here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil_hat

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The phrase serves as a byword for paranoia and is often used to characterize conspiracy theorists.

From wikipedia
Well I made a mistake, I am not paranoid or a conspiracy theorist in any way!

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I think you've read a biut much into my random link posting, Gary

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Jameseh, it is not you who came out with tinfoil hat.