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Semi-OT:

On the subject of GitHub's robots.txt[0], would anyone have a guess at why this particular repo[1] is singled out?

[0] https://github.com/robots.txt

[1] https://github.com/ekansa/Open-Context-Data



It could be a honeypot. Any robot that crawls that URL gets auto-banned.




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