strange MS visits

[Jamon Camisso]

Can you use a robots.txt file to block M$ like you can Google?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JoeHill" <joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org>
To: <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: strange MS visits


> On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 20:49:05 -0500
> Sergey Kuznetsov disseminated the following:
>
>> It's "Google-killer" search engine from Micro$oft. This IP address in my
>> permanent iptables ban-list.
>> They are very aggressively index my pages almost every day, slowing down
>> my connection.
>
> Hmmm, couldn't you add some sort of rewrite rule in your apache conf that 
> would
> do something nasty to the originating host?
>
> Of course, this is only hypothetically speaking, doing so would highly
> unethical.
>
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