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Anyone know the purpose of this bot?

         

voltrader

5:24 pm on May 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Should I ban it?

versus crawler eda baykan at epfl ch

Brett_Tabke

2:33 pm on May 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Yes, it is a research bot by a phd student.

bull

5:11 pm on May 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Does fetch robots.txt, but does not provide a URL with webmaster information, such as the correct User-agent to specify in robots.txt for Disallow the bot.
 

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