Subject: Re: blocking bots
To: Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com>
From: Alex van Denzel <bitbucket@adenzel.demon.nl>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/24/2001 23:52:33
Ty Sarna wrote:
> > Have you tried putting a robots.txt file in place to prohibit
> > webcrawlers? That's the high-level solution to try first.
> 
> And it should get all of them, without you having to know IPs or
> anything.

Yeah. For benign robots. Malicious robots ignore the file and happily
create server load, scan for e-mail addresses to spam, etc.

Greetings (normally not so pessimistic) 
-- 
Alex

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