[thelist] Spider Attack

Matt Warden mwarden at gmail.com
Tue Mar 15 22:48:51 CST 2005


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:36:16 -0800 (PST), BMP <microme_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I need someone to advise me about preventing robot spiders from using excess bandwidth on my website. I know something about HTML, JS but Perl, etc. are not known. I have a robots.txt file, but I am not sure if the spiders searching my site are friendly or not, so I am hesitating about excluding them until I can get more information about them. The biggest abuser seems to be Mozilla Gecko. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 

See Dan Cody's articles:

http://five2one.org/articles/Stopping_spambots_I.html
http://five2one.org/articles/Stopping_spambots_II.html

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Matt Warden
Miami University
Oxford, OH, USA
http://mattwarden.com


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