>>Define 'bad'. - bots that disobey robots.txt, - bots that do not even offer any search service for visitors searching for you, useless bots, - bots that just harvest images (just Google picscout AND gettyImages) and steal a huge amount of your bandwidth,
>>If I was a 'bad' bot and you blocked me... I'd just disguise myself as a 'Good' bot... Ah, oh yeas, and also bots that disguise themself as a 'Good' bot... Just like picscout. I don't care if a bot is disguised or not (picscout pretends to be "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible ; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) " or "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; (R1 1.1); .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" See: http://www.webmasterworld.com/search_engine_spiders/3151673.htm) If it gets to a page hrefed on a 1 pixel blank image, it cannot be a human browser. >>which is rather simple. Too late, If I blocked you, I've got your IP! ;-) Good bots like GoogleBot may have 100s of IP, but bad bots have merely a couple. -- _______________________________________ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:292199 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
