[COLUG] How to boycott Microsoft (or at least MSN search)

[Scott Merrill]

Wade Pinkston said:
> Scott Merrill wrote:
> | More likely Microsoft will either start using alternate user-agent
> strings
> | for their bots or simply start ignoring the robots.txt altogether.
>
> Most likely very true.  But it feels good to at least say "NO" even if
> you are using a gate with tissue paper bars.

Why?  What's the value in preventing MSN Search from crawling your site?

Maybe I'm a loony, but I thought the whole point of _having_ a website was
so that people could read it.  If they can't find it, they can't read it. 
How can you advocate GNU/Linux or Free Software solutions to people if you
aggressively deny them the opportunity to find your site?  If you only
allow Google to index your site, then you're mostly preaching to the
choir.