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I almost didn't reply to your inquiry.
A search through the threads will provide my screename more than a few times. ;)
My profile says that I've been devoted to primarily this forum at WebmasterWorld for nearly two years. Although the other forums are quite interesting, my plate is rather full and I feel the need to limit myself to this forum, which proves beneficial to myself and my websites.
The IP was 216.39.50.64
Now I suppose it's possible that is a fake IP however AltaVista has some record in traveling beyond the suggestions in robots.txt. It has to do with their interpetation of sub folders and also the lack of control in their bot.
I've denied vscooter.
Don
This is AV's "image" robot, so sites that see no benefit in getting their images indexed can safely block vscooter.
It's too bad that many companies don't realize that their robots are often their first contact with webmasters. The number of improperly-indentified (no contact/info in user-agent string), misbehaving, and broken robots is rather appalling.
Jim
no offence when i'm doubting your first statement, but there are a couple of spiders using fake UA. :)
I'm trying to build a complete (i know it impossible) database of web crawlers, so i need to ensure that the data i'm adding to it is correct.
