There are only a few popular search engines at anytime. They are doing you a favour by indexing you, because you needtheir users far more than they need your content. You are are doingeveryone else a favour by letting them index you , since they needcontent (yours included) to attract users.

When people are doing you a favour, it's worthwhile to go out of yourway to help them out.

When you are doing search engines the favour, it's their job to go

This week we received 11,880 email messages from 233 different IPaddresses. Our SMTP server handled 36,465 sessions from 4,042different IP addresses, down markedly from last week .

Overall connections are down slightly from last week : 210,400connections from at least 38,800 different IP addresses. This week, weonly hit a highwater of 22 connections being processedsimultaneously. Per day statistics:

; uptime 19:33:45 up 264 days, 12 min, [...]; ps -e -o start,comm STARTED COMMAND  Feb 01 init[...]  Feb 01 X  Feb 01 xterm  Feb 01 fvwm2  Feb 01 wish8.4  Feb 01 exmh[...]  Apr 12 ssh[...]

I don't think long uptimes are an exclusive Unix virtue; everyoperating system can

Python likes to handle things through exceptions. As part of this, onUnix it does two important signal changes; it ignores SIGPIPE andcatches SIGINT . Each of these can make a Python program reportapparent errors where a normal Unix command-line program would justsilently exit.

This matters if you want to write a Python program that will play wellin an ordinary command-line environment, alongside things like cat , sed , and awk .

First, people expect that they can ^C a Unix command-line program