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Originally Posted by Big Ray
So you are saying that the owner of the board should make exceptions for some sites, and ban others?
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I assume that makes no sense to you? Obviously that should be the case. If Lensman is okay with SEs that simply publishes 1 or 2 lines as an excerpt and link directly to the thread - than that SE should be permitted to crawl GFY. Of course, both sides would agree what times the bot would be active, from which IPs, etc.
On the other hand, if another site/bot is crawling GFY every 2 minutes and publishes entire threads and Lensman feels this is wrong - that bot should be banned.
It all boils down to what Lensman wants to do and what is technologically possible to do in order to accomplish that. From what it seems, he's not okay even with sites such as STboards.
The only reason I posted my first post is because the issue of copyrights and other legal matters fascinate me and I like to participate in such discussions. This thread is not going in the direction I originally thought it would - so I may have to call it a day soon
