YahooSeeker Bot does not obey robots.txt

bad yahoo, no cookie.

[farside847]

Just had to block their bot, they were hitting my site
10 times per second, and accessing https and other banned
pages from my robots.txt

Anyone else see this?

I sent an email to [e-mail] and [e-mail] -
does anyone know if this is the right address to contact them about it?

While I like the idea of all my producs added to their
beta site, I dont want them to run crazy like all over my
site...

[edit]
Now that I search through the logs, the bot never even
attempted to read my robots.txt

[dragonlady7]

I've never even seen the YahooSeeker bot. Is my ignorance showing or does it not crawl much?

[farside847]

I saw it for the first time last week, it is part of the
beta product search page (that works very similar to froogle IMHO)

[farside847]

I got a very nice reply from [e-mail]

Shawn, we've identified a bug in our crawling
program - a fix should go out tonight w/r/t
the robots.txt problem.

Our crawler fetches 1 request/sec and sleeps
every 5 seconds for a few seconds. We've
slowed the fetching down a tad.

[EliteWeb]

What was the full browser tags and identity of this spider including IP address.

[farside847]

YahooSeeker/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; [search.yahoo.com...]

216.109.126.* (I saw 30 or so unique IPs)

[fiestagirl]

I've seen it coming around with this former Inktomi address which now resolves to:

yj1001.search.sc5.yahoo.com

66.196.93.*

YahooSeeker/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; http: //search.yahoo.com/yahooseeker.html)