# robot eXclusion principle User-agent: * Disallow: /stats/ # 13/9/04 - Stop "Slurp" slurping too often (not more than once every 5 minutes; later changed to one hour) User-agent: Slurp Crawl-delay: 3600 # 14/2/05 - Ditto "msnbot" but with delay of one hour User-agent: msnbot Crawl-delay: 3600 # 4/4/05 - Allow "googlebot" to once again roam these 'ere shores User-agent: googlebot Crawl-delay: 3600 # 16/9/07 - The NLA's PANDORA robot seems to have tied itself in a knot # http://pandora.nla.gov.au/crawl.html # In any case, I don't know why this site should interest the NLA; # just because it's operated from Australia doesn't mean... User-agent: archive.org_bot Disallow: / # 2/3/09 - Majestic-12 search engine is running amok; install temporary # block to identify genuine agents, i.e., those that respect this # command, or more generally "robots.txt", from the rest User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: /