The exclusion appears to be for paths only.. You can see the details at [robotstxt.org...]
customdy
3:53 pm on Jul 16, 2003 (gmt 0)
I have seen example of :
disallow: email.htm
so my thought was *.jpg would be allowable but not sure about the wildcard.
JamesR
4:40 pm on Jul 16, 2003 (gmt 0)
If your images are all in one folder you can disallow that folder.
tschild
4:50 pm on Jul 16, 2003 (gmt 0)
Wildcards are an extension supported by Google (see their "Webmaster Info" document) but it's not a part of the robots.txt standard - the standard says the value is interpreted as a full or partial path.
Also to be on the safe side you should write Disallow: instead of disallow:
customdy
5:01 pm on Jul 16, 2003 (gmt 0)
Thanks, guess I am going to bite the bullet and move all of the images over to an image folder.