Searchengine bots and meta refresh for disabled Javascript

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Hi!

I have a website that must have javascript turned on so it can work

there is a < noscript> tag that have a meta to redirect the user to a page that alerts him about the disabled javascript...

I am wondering, is this a bad thing for search engine crawlers?
Because I send an e-mail to myself when someone doesn't have js so I can analyze if its necessary to rebuild the website for these people, but its 100% js activated and the only ones that doesn't have JS are searchengines crawlers... I guess google, yahoo etc doesn't take the meta refresh seriously when inside a < noscript> ?

Should I do something to check if they are bots and do not redirect them with meta?

Thanks,
Joe

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