Hi Mark,

> just to follow up and clarify this... an example is my gallery site... i may
> not want the spiders trapsing thru the exhibits and looking at the actual
> photos available... only the microthumbs and thumbs, sure so i just set up a

Sure, because they are all on the web, and you want some control there.. I
understand that :)

>disallow for the exhibits area and let them wander over the others... then, if
> i see them in the exhibits areas, then i know that they're not following
>robots.txt and i can then contact their admins with my complaint or just block
> them at the perimeter and deny them access to everything... depending on my
> mood, of course ;)

.. now you sound like me :) :)  But seriously, that week that they were
hitting BBBS's ports was kind of insane to me 

Take care,
Janis

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