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Make faqomatic impenetrable to webcrawlers.
Make faqomatic impenetrable to webcrawlers. faqomatic should not allow search engines to create null additions at the end of items. If no text is in message body, the item should not be added.

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If you set the permissions such that only authenticated users can do anything, then this should solve the webcrawler problem.

However, it would still be useful to have as part of the maintenance script something that would purge new items that had been created, but never filled in. Many times users click the [Add New Answer] button just out of curiousity.

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