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Lexibot

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mack

3:08 am on Oct 9, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Lately I have been getting hit pretty hard by lexibot. It totaly disreguards robots.txt and downloads massive amounts of pages and as a result is chewing up bandwidth. From what I have read about this thing it is a cross between an off-line browser and a desktop search tool. Are you people allowing or banning this from your sites. I guess the only way to bar it is to use htaccess since it seams to be oblivious to robots standards.

jdMorgan

4:00 am on Oct 9, 2002 (gmt 0)

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mack,

Yes, I have that one blocked in .htaccess for multiple transgressions.

Jim

Finder

10:43 pm on Oct 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

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What's the exact User-Agent? LexiBot? I'd like to add it too.

bobothecat

11:38 pm on Oct 10, 2002 (gmt 0)



Here's my .htaccess listing for them:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} LexiBot [NC,OR]

Seems to work for me.