Servers may choose to outline rules on the behaviour of internet bots by implementing a robots.txt file: this file is simply text stating the rules governing a bot's behaviour on that server. Any bot interacting with (or 'spidering') any server that does not follow these rules should, in theory, be denied access to, or removed from, the affected website.
For other uses, see Ignorance (disambiguation). Ignorance is a state of being uninformed or lack of knowledge. The word ignorant is an adjective describing a person in the state of being unaware and is often (incorrectly) used to describe individuals who deliberately ignore or disregard important information or facts.
Supreme Court to CountryWide: Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse. Ignorantia juris non excusat or Ignorantia legis neminem excusat. One case decided by the Supreme Court this week had a decidedly everyman theme to it. First there is the maxim the majority, written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, uses to define its opinion: ignorance of the law is no excuse.