On 2022 Mar 20 21:21:42, you wrote to g00r00:

 BW> I just noticed that Googlebot has begun crawling the anonymous FTP here.
 BW> :-D

 BW> To my surprise, they seem to try to enter a /robots.txt subdirectory before
 BW> trying to download /robots.txt:

that's how they decide if it is a file or a directory... if it is a file, then they download it...

)\/(ark

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