robots.txt for stopping some spambots (very long post)

[iGuest 3]

having a robots.txt file can preveny 118 spam-bots from harvesting e-mail addy's from your sitePlease, we do NOT allow nonauthorized robots any longer. # User-agent: URL_Spider_Pro Disallow: / User-agent: CherryPicker Disallow: / User-agent: EmailCollector Disallow: / User-agent: EmailSiphon Disallow: / User-agent: WebBandit Disallow: / User-agent: EmailWolf Disallow: / User-agent: ExtractorPro Disallow: / User-agent: CopyRightCheck Disallow: / User-agent: Crescent Disallow: / User-agent: SiteSnagger Disallow: / User-agent: ProWebWalker Disallow: / User-agent: CheeseBot Disallow: / User-agent: LNSpiderguy Disallow: / User-agent: Black Hole Disallow: / User-agent: Titan Disallow: / User-agent: WebStripper Disallow: / User-agent: NetMechanic Disallow: / User-agent: CherryPicker Disallow: / User-agent: EmailCollector Disallow: / User-agent: EmailSiphon Disallow: / User-agent: WebBandit Disallow: / User-agent: EmailWolf Disallow: / User-agent: ExtractorPro Disallow: / User-agent: CopyRightCheck Disallow: / User-agent: Crescent Disallow: / User-agent: Wget Disallow: / User-agent: SiteSnagger Disallow: / User- agent: ProWebWalker Disallow: / User-agent: CheeseBot Disallow: / User- agent: mozilla/4 Disallow: / User-agent: mozilla/5 Disallow: / User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT) Disallow: / User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95) Disallow: / User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 98) Disallow: / User-agent: Teleport Disallow: / User-agent: TeleportPro Disallow: / User-agent: MIIxpc Disallow: / User-agent: Telesoft Disallow: / User-agent: Website Quester Disallow: / User-agent: WebZip Disallow: / User-agent: moget/2.1 Disallow: / User-agent: WebZip/4.0 Disallow: / User-agent: WebSauger Disallow: / User-agent: WebCopier Disallow: / User-agent: NetAnts Disallow: / User- agent: Mister PiX Disallow: / User-agent: WebAuto Disallow: / User-agent: TheNomad Disallow: / User-agent: WWW-Collector-E Disallow: / User- agent: RMA Disallow: / User-agent: libWeb/clsHTTP Disallow: / User-agent: asterias Disallow: / User-agent: httplib Disallow: / User-agent: turingos Disallow: / User-agent: spanner Disallow: / User-agent: InfoNaviRobot Disallow: / User-agent: Harvest/1.5 Disallow: / User-agent: Bullseye/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; BullsEye; Windows 95) Disallow: / User-agent: Crescent Internet ToolPak HTTP OLE Control v.1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: CherryPickerSE/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: CherryPickerElite/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: WebBandit/3.50 Disallow: / User-agent: NICErsPRO Disallow: / User-agent: Microsoft URL Control - 5.01.4511 Disallow: / User-agent: DittoSpyder Disallow: / User-agent: Foobot Disallow: / User-agent: WebmasterWorldForumBot Disallow: / User- agent: SpankBot Disallow: / User-agent: BotALot Disallow: / User-agent: lwp-trivial/1.34 Disallow: / User-agent: lwp-trivial Disallow: / User-agent: Wget/1.6 Disallow: / User-agent: BunnySlippers Disallow: / User-agent: Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8169 Disallow: / User-agent: URLy Warning Disallow: / User-agent: Wget/1.5.3 Disallow: / User-agent: LinkWalker Disallow: / User-agent: cosmos Disallow: / User-agent: moget Disallow: / User-agent: hloader Disallow: / User-agent: humanlinks Disallow: / User- agent: LinkextractorPro Disallow: / User-agent: Offline Explorer Disallow: / User-agent: Mata Hari Disallow: / User-agent: LexiBot Disallow: / User- agent: Web Image Collector Disallow: / User-agent: The Intraformant Disallow: / User-agent: True_Robot/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: True_Robot Disallow: / User-agent: BlowFish/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: JennyBot Disallow: / User-agent: MIIxpc/4.2 Disallow: / User-agent: BuiltBotTough Disallow: / User-agent: ProPowerBot/2.14 Disallow: / User-agent: BackDoorBot/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: toCrawl/UrlDispatcher Disallow: / User-agent: WebEnhancer Disallow: / User-agent: TightTwatBot Disallow: / User-agent: suzuran Disallow: / User-agent: VCI WebViewer VCI WebViewer Win32 Disallow: / User-agent: VCI Disallow: / User-agent: Szukacz/1.4 Disallow: / User-agent: QueryN Metasearch Disallow: / User- agent: Openfind data gathere Disallow: / User-agent: Openfind Disallow: / User-agent: Xenu's Link Sleuth 1.1c Disallow: / User-agent: Xenu's Disallow: / User-agent: Zeus Disallow: / User-agent: RepoMonkey Bait & Tackle/v1.01 Disallow: / User-agent: RepoMonkey Disallow: / User-agent: Zeus 32297 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32 Disallow: / User-agent: Webster Pro Disallow: / User-agent: EroCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: LinkScan/8.1a Unix Disallow: / User-agent: Keyword Density/0.9 Disallow: / User-agent: Kenjin Spider Disallow: / User-agent: Cegbfeieh Disallow: /

[iGuest 3]

This assumes that all robots reference the robots.txt file.Unfortunately, many dont. :x

[iGuest 3]

yes, unfortunately there are many that don't, otherwise it would be a much longer list.

[iGuest 3]

if they dun see robots.txt den where do they get it frm...

[iGuest 3]

too much

[iGuest 3]

if they dun see robots.txt den where do they get it frm...

The "robots.txt" file contains directions on how robots should index a website.The problem is that many robots don't respect the "robots.txt" file and index whatever they want(can).

[iGuest 3]

well... whats the point of having the file then?

[iGuest 3]

Thats the question you sometimes ask yourself, but lets not forget that

there are still spiders there do the right thing and reference the robots.txt

file, as geancanach points out in his list above.