Banning AskJeeves Bot

Need to ban askJeeves

[Marcus Aurelius]

Ask is just totally slamming my site for pages and sends almost no traffic to the site. Anyone know a simple way I can ban this bot or at least slow the thing down, its crushing some of the more complex db pages.

Thanks!

[jdMorgan]

From the Ask Jeeves Crawler information page -- URL included in their User-agent string:

Can I control the crawler request rate from Teoma [Ask Jeeves] spider to my site? [sp.ask.com]

Jim