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Summary

It was noticed that Google/DDG sometimes are sending users to the past
releases documentation. To avoid misinformation, disallow this archive
from the search engines.

This robots.txt only covers docs.FreeBSD.org and not www.FreeBSD.org, so
also remove unnecessary items.

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dbaio requested review of this revision.Aug 8 2021, 2:13 PM
dbaio created this revision.

It was reported more cases of misinformation. I'll push this.

This revision was not accepted when it landed; it landed in state Needs Review.Aug 13 2021, 10:57 PM
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