Seriously, you all neeed a life then to complain about Bots, if the Bots were not here, do you realize how much more dificult the information you would like and are requesting would not be found as easy.

Why dont you people really think about something before you get yourself involved with something that HELPS YOU in the long run, and take it offline.

I do agree with spam messages being forced into e-mail boxes, this is the problem you are having not with the bots its-self, maybe you should give the company some feedback on there bot to critique it so it works for both you and them.

Think people Think. There is More than 10 Petabytes of information on the Internet. thats 10,000,000,000,000,000 bits of information per peat, do you want to look through all of that or would you like to go straight to the information requested.

exabot does not always obey robots.txt
i added it to my robot.txt files a month a go and it still crashed my server
now let's see what my firewall will do to 193.47.80.1/24

Do you know anything about the internet and how it works? It's a series of tubes!

All joking aside. Yes, everyone here knows that bots are needed. No one is disagreeing with you. You're fighting a fight that you alone started against no one.

Keep up the thievery and ignoring robots.txt and your website won't be able to index anything. I'm guessing you don't have much experience in information services or have just enough to get you into trouble. These aren't the kind of people you want to mess with and piss off.

I hope you get the issues worked out so every can prosper from each others work, legitimately.