Hi Sean,

>> I should just kill them period even on port 80 for apache, and I still
>> may do so .  I have free-find indexing my site automatically,
>> and they do it in such a way that it doesn't interfere with anything..
>> so it's not like google-bot couldn't do it that way if they wanted to!

>I had to block that Chinese search engine, Baidu, from my site-their bot would
> hit it nearly every hour...and it was killing my bandwidth.

I'm not familiar with that one.. I should do a grep for them to see if
they've hit over here as well 

Hey, last night I had the greatest chat with a user on my system.. he's
from Zone 6 (he's in Tokyo) - and he wonders what happened to Z6.. sad :( 
Well, he is looking to get it going again.. Super I think :)

Take care,
Janis

--- BBBS/LiI v4.01 Flag