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== APNchangeR: Terms of use ==
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== APNchangeR: Disclamer ==
  
The body of work that makes up APNchangeR -- text, images, etc. -- is free for anyone to use, as long as they comply with our copyleft. We're working on making the entire Wikitravel database available in other formats, so if you feel the need to copy this information elsewhere, you can.
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The APNchangeR is free for anyone to use.
  
The APNchangeR.org Web server, with accompanying Wiki software, are a collaboration tool used to coordinate the effort of contributing APNchangeR. It is made available to the entire community of APNchangeR contributors, namely:
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The APNchangeR.org web server, with accompanying Wiki software, are a collaboration tool used to coordinate the effort of contributing to APNchangeR. It is made available to the entire community of APNchangeR contributors:
  
* Let people use their smartphones, tablets, cell phones, notebooks and other mobile devices with different cellular operators all over the world in the most cost effective way.
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1. People who support our goals of creating a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable APN guide
* Let people travel abroad with iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones, MiFi modems and other data devices and pay local rates avoiding outrageous roaming charges for voice and data.
 
* Let people configure their mobile devices and receive free, up-to-date information for specific carriers in real time and on the go.
 
  
If you're not interested in our goals, or if you agree with our goals but refuse to collaborate, compromise, reach consensus or make concessions with other APNchangeRs, we ask that you not use this Web service. If you continue to use the service against our wishes, we reserve the right to use whatever means available -- technical or legal -- to prevent you from disrupting our work together.
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2. People who acknowledge that collaboration with other Wiki sites is necessary to achieve this goal
  
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If you're not interested in our goals, we ask that you not use this Web service. If you continue to use the service against our wishes, we reserve the right to use whatever means available -- technical or legal -- to prevent you from disrupting our work together.
  
== Reframing, image inclusion ==
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== Spiders ==
  
APNchangeR has limited server resources and we'd like to use them to support the creation of content.
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Spiders, bots, and scripts that read APNchangeR.org must obey the following rules. This includes "mass downloaders" like wget or HTTrack. IP addresses for programs that ignore these rules will be blocked at the TCP/IP level.
  
For this reason, we ask that individuals or organizations wishing to re-distribute APNcangeR content do not serve images from APNchangeR for inclusion in their own pages, nor put APNchangeR pages into framesets.
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1. Read-only scripts must read the robots.txt file for APNchangeR and follow its suggestions. Most programs (like [http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html wget]) automatically know about robots.txt, as do major scripting languages' HTTP client libraries. But if you're writing your own program, check the [http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html Standard for Robot Exclusion] for more info.
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2. Read-only scripts should recognize the non-standard [http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp/slurp-03.html Crawl-Delay] field in robots.txt. If not, they must not fetch pages or images more often than once every 30 seconds.
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3. Read-only scripts must have a User-Agent header set. Scripts should provide a contact email or URL in the header. For example:
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* ExampleBot/0.1 (http://www.example.com/bot.html)
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* MyBot/2.3 (mybot@example.net)

Latest revision as of 15:08, 5 October 2011

APNchangeR: Disclamer

The APNchangeR is free for anyone to use.

The APNchangeR.org web server, with accompanying Wiki software, are a collaboration tool used to coordinate the effort of contributing to APNchangeR. It is made available to the entire community of APNchangeR contributors:

1. People who support our goals of creating a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable APN guide

2. People who acknowledge that collaboration with other Wiki sites is necessary to achieve this goal

If you're not interested in our goals, we ask that you not use this Web service. If you continue to use the service against our wishes, we reserve the right to use whatever means available -- technical or legal -- to prevent you from disrupting our work together.

Spiders

Spiders, bots, and scripts that read APNchangeR.org must obey the following rules. This includes "mass downloaders" like wget or HTTrack. IP addresses for programs that ignore these rules will be blocked at the TCP/IP level.

1. Read-only scripts must read the robots.txt file for APNchangeR and follow its suggestions. Most programs (like wget) automatically know about robots.txt, as do major scripting languages' HTTP client libraries. But if you're writing your own program, check the Standard for Robot Exclusion for more info.

2. Read-only scripts should recognize the non-standard Crawl-Delay field in robots.txt. If not, they must not fetch pages or images more often than once every 30 seconds.

3. Read-only scripts must have a User-Agent header set. Scripts should provide a contact email or URL in the header. For example: