# /robots.txt file for http://www.louisiana.edu/
# comments to webmaster@louisiana.edu

# DATE: 2005.Mar.08 # AUTHOR: Duke Hillard (dxh0844@louisiana.edu)
# We're using an unofficial standard from 1996 to control robot behavior.
# As the standard is unoffical, some robots disregard it. Some robots are
# capable of recognizing a variety of extended commands that are proposed
# by themselves or by a consensus of unoffical standard bearers. As there
# are a number of these in play, the time and energy invested in learning
# each and every ruleset (moving targets, anyway) is currently too great.
# As a result, we follow the original standard because it appears to have
# the widest acceptance. Currently, three sites summarize in a useful way
# the origins and evolution of robots.txt.  They are:
# (1) http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html
# (2) http://www.searchtools.com/robots/
# (3) http://www.google.com/remove.html 

# Even though our first User-agent field declares that we wish all robots
# to adhere to our directives, the robots in the subsequent User-agent
# fields are very polite and want a specific invitation to index our site.
User-agent: *
User-agent: htdig
User-agent: NetMechanic
Disallow: /favicon.ico # favorites icon for IE users
Disallow: /footer.txt # internal use
Disallow: /footer.html # internal use
Disallow: /trademark.html # outdated file
Disallow: /cgi-bin/ # Common Gateway Interface
Disallow: /Computer/ # outdated directory
Disallow: /Departments/ # outdated directory
Disallow: /error/ # error messages
Disallow: /Graphics/ # contain no text
Disallow: /iticse99/ # temporary directory
Disallow: /Organizations/ # outdated directory
Disallow: /WebEvent/ # configuration files
Disallow: /Web/ # dynamic reports
Disallow: /SACS/ # we don't want this subdirectory to be searchable
# Hypothetically, robots are case-insensitive, so we disallow these just once.
# For a variety of reasons, we wish to index only HTML and PHP.
Disallow: .ai
Disallow: .aif
Disallow: .aiff
Disallow: .arc
Disallow: .asp
Disallow: .au
Disallow: .avi
Disallow: .bmp
Disallow: .cfm
Disallow: .cgi
Disallow: .class
Disallow: .csh
Disallow: .css
Disallow: .doc
Disallow: .dot
Disallow: .eps
Disallow: .exe
Disallow: .gif
Disallow: .gz
Disallow: .hqx
Disallow: .ico
Disallow: .ief
Disallow: .inf
Disallow: .jar
Disallow: .jpeg
Disallow: .jpg
Disallow: .js
Disallow: .jsp
Disallow: .lwp
Disallow: .maf
Disallow: .mam
Disallow: .mcw
Disallow: .mdb
Disallow: .mid
Disallow: .mov
Disallow: .mpeg
Disallow: .mpg
Disallow: .mp3
Disallow: .mp4
Disallow: .pdf
Disallow: .pl
Disallow: .png
Disallow: .ppt
Disallow: .ps
Disallow: .psd
Disallow: .pwd
Disallow: .qt
Disallow: .ram
Disallow: .rm
Disallow: .rtf
Disallow: .sea
Disallow: .sh
Disallow: .sit
Disallow: .svg
Disallow: .swf
Disallow: .txt
Disallow: .wav
Disallow: .wma
Disallow: .wmv
Disallow: .wpd
Disallow: .wps
Disallow: .wvx
Disallow: .xbm
Disallow: .xls
Disallow: .zip