# Claims

The Claims ledger of Rattlesnakes By Mail holds every fact published on Rattlesnakes By Mail, one claim per row. A claim is one atomic dated statement about one entity, carrying a verbatim vendor quote of 300 characters or fewer, a source URL, a verification method and a confidence. A published claim is never edited. A correction creates a new claim that supersedes the older claim, both claims stay addressable at their own URLs, and every supersession appears at /changes.

## Claude-SearchBot

| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| cites_sources | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| honours_crawl_delay | yes | medium | 2026-09-13 |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| purpose_documented | search | high | 2026-09-13 |
| reads_llms_txt | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| respects_robots_txt | yes | medium | 2026-09-13 |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| user_agent_string_full | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| verifiable_by_rdns | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |

## Claude-User

| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| cites_sources | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| honours_crawl_delay | yes | medium | 2026-09-13 |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| purpose_documented | user_fetch | high | 2026-09-13 |
| reads_llms_txt | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| respects_robots_txt | yes | medium | 2026-09-13 |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | not_documented | medium | 2026-09-13 |
| user_agent_string_full | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| user_fetch_exception_documented | no | high | 2026-09-13 |
| verifiable_by_rdns | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |

## ClaudeBot

| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| anti_circumvention_stance | documented | high | 2026-09-13 |
| honours_crawl_delay | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| observed_fetches_json | yes | high | 2026-09-15 |
| observed_fetches_markdown | yes | high | 2026-09-15 |
| observed_first_request_path | /sitemap.xml | high | 2026-09-15 |
| observed_format_pass_order | html_json_md | high | 2026-09-15 |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| purpose_documented | training | high | 2026-09-13 |
| respects_robots_txt | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| user_agent_string_full | not_documented | medium | 2026-09-13 |
| verifiable_by_rdns | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |

## Applebot

| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| cites_sources | yes | medium | 2026-09-13 |
| fallback_to_googlebot_rules | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| honours_crawl_delay | no | high | 2026-09-13 |
| observed_paths_fetched | robots_txt_and_home_only | medium | 2026-09-15 |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| purpose_documented | mixed | high | 2026-09-13 |
| reads_llms_txt | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| respects_robots_txt | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | partial | high | 2026-09-13 |
| user_agent_string_full | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot) | high | 2026-09-13 |
| verifiable_by_rdns | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |

## Applebot-Extended

| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| honours_crawl_delay | n/a | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| publishes_ip_list | no | medium | 2026-09-13 |
| purpose_documented | policy_only | high | 2026-09-13 |
| respects_robots_txt | n/a | high | 2026-09-13 |
| robots_token_differs_from_ua | yes | medium | 2026-09-13 |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| verifiable_by_rdns | n/a | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| what_it_controls | AI training use of content, not search indexing | high | 2026-09-13 |

## Google-Extended

| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| honours_crawl_delay | n/a | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| publishes_ip_list | no | high | 2026-09-13 |
| purpose_documented | policy_only | high | 2026-09-13 |
| respects_robots_txt | n/a | high | 2026-09-13 |
| robots_token_differs_from_ua | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| verifiable_by_rdns | n/a | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| what_it_controls | Gemini model training and grounding, not Search inclusion | high | 2026-09-13 |

## GoogleOther

| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| honours_crawl_delay | no | medium | 2026-09-13 |
| observed_fetches_robots_txt | no | high | 2026-09-15 |
| observed_requested_mcp_endpoint | yes | high | 2026-09-15 |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| purpose_documented | mixed | high | 2026-09-13 |
| respects_robots_txt | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| robots_txt_token | GoogleOther | high | 2026-09-13 |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| verifiable_by_rdns | yes | medium | 2026-09-13 |

## Googlebot

| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| cites_sources | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| honours_crawl_delay | no | medium | 2026-09-13 |
| observed_verified_request_ratio_census | 0.991 | high | 2026-09-15 |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| purpose_documented | search | high | 2026-09-13 |
| reads_llms_txt | no | high | 2026-09-14 |
| respects_robots_txt | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| user_agent_string_full | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) | high | 2026-09-13 |
| verifiable_by_rdns | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |

## Bingbot

| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| cites_sources | yes | high | 2026-09-14 |
| follows_noarchive | yes | high | 2026-09-14 |
| honours_crawl_delay | yes | high | 2026-09-14 |
| opt_out_mechanism | yes | high | 2026-09-14 |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | high | 2026-09-14 |
| purpose_documented | yes | high | 2026-09-14 |
| reads_llms_txt | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-14 |
| respects_robots_txt | yes | high | 2026-09-14 |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | no | high | 2026-09-14 |
| user_agent_string_full | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) | high | 2026-09-14 |
| verifiable_by_rdns | yes | high | 2026-09-14 |

## ChatGPT-User

| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| cites_sources | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| honours_crawl_delay | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| purpose_documented | user_fetch | high | 2026-09-13 |
| reads_llms_txt | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| respects_robots_txt | partial | high | 2026-09-13 |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | not_documented | medium | 2026-09-13 |
| user_agent_string_full | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot | high | 2026-09-13 |
| verifiable_by_rdns | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |

## GPTBot

| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| honours_crawl_delay | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| purpose_documented | training | high | 2026-09-13 |
| respects_robots_txt | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| robots_txt_fetch_marker | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| user_agent_string_full | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; GPTBot/1.4; +https://openai.com/gptbot | high | 2026-09-13 |
| verifiable_by_rdns | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |

## OAI-AdsBot

| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| honours_crawl_delay | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| purpose_documented | ads | high | 2026-09-13 |
| respects_robots_txt | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| scope_of_crawling | limited to submitted ad landing pages | high | 2026-09-13 |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | not_documented | medium | 2026-09-13 |
| user_agent_string_full | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-AdsBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/adsbot | high | 2026-09-13 |
| verifiable_by_rdns | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |

## OAI-SearchBot

| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| cites_sources | yes | medium | 2026-09-13 |
| honours_crawl_delay | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| observed_arrival_before_sitemap | yes | medium | 2026-09-15 |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| purpose_documented | search | high | 2026-09-13 |
| reads_llms_txt | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| respects_robots_txt | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| user_agent_string_full | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.4; +https://openai.com/searchbot | high | 2026-09-13 |
| verifiable_by_rdns | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |

## Perplexity-User

| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| cites_sources | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| honours_crawl_delay | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| purpose_documented | user_fetch | high | 2026-09-13 |
| reads_llms_txt | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| respects_robots_txt | no | high | 2026-09-13 |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | not_documented | medium | 2026-09-13 |
| user_agent_string_full | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Perplexity-User/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexity-user) | high | 2026-09-13 |
| verifiable_by_rdns | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |

## PerplexityBot

| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| cites_sources | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| honours_crawl_delay | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | high | 2026-09-13 |
| purpose_documented | search | high | 2026-09-13 |
| reads_llms_txt | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| respects_robots_txt | yes | medium | 2026-09-13 |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |
| user_agent_string_full | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot) | high | 2026-09-13 |
| verifiable_by_rdns | not_documented | n/a | 2026-09-13 |