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Users of Internet Explorer or Maxthon These are the most useless browsers know to man on the internet. Download a GOOD one NOW!
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This is a flexible HORIZONTAL HOVER menu that WORKS in IE 7 and Maxthon 2
… with NO Javascript Hacks. It is 100% W3C Compliant for XHTML STRICT and CSS.
More to the point – No Whatever:hover.htc Required NO SuckerFish or SuckerTree additions
NO [IF IE]…. Required Naturally, if you WANT to support the ancient browser technology then use the Java addons mentioned – but I thought everone was crying out to refuse supporting it anymore (talking about IE6 and older that doesnt recognise hover, onclick ..) On that note, the CSS side menu on the main site works on IE6 and displays it’s formatting correctly … that is for another post though.
I am hoping that this code will be of valuable use to a fellow ‘Webby’ out there. Isn’t it great when you get the thing looking JUST how you want it… and then a few days later, you check it is supposedly ‘bugs ironed out version’ Internet Explorer 7 and the world drops on your head.
Microsoft live in ‘opposite world’ …. because in opposite world when you say display inline / and say make my menu horizontal … you mean’t Vertical —- NOT!!!
And so, after a LOT of trials, tribulations, and pain from banging my head on the desk, I got this working and hope to save someone elses pain in the process.
So what about IE6 you ask.
IE6 just doesnt show the thing at all ) which suits me, in fact that’s GREAT! -It doesnt show any errors to your visitor… but it would be a good idea to give a bog alternate nav or PREFERABLY encourage anyone on IE6 / IE ancient based to come out of the dark ages, into the 21st Century – and UPGRADE!- preferably NOT to IE anything including anything based on it such as Maxthon. It has YET to be successfully described why some think IE6 is safter to use that other browser.
Checked and working “Okilidokily” IN:
Firefox 2, Google Chrome, Avant, Opera 9, Netscape Navigator 9, Flock 1.2. Tested on Firefox on Linux. Safari 3 on PC. It WORKS in – IE 7 and Maxthon 2 !! 
The Code
Right then…. The XHTML code is as bog as bog can be with a simple UL / LI (Unordered List / List) Menu listing. The basic model is as follows:
XHTML
<div id=”topnav”>
<ul class=”nav”>
<li><a href=”#”>TITLE A</a>
<ul>
<li><a href=”/pagelink.php”>Subtitle 1</a></li>
<li><a href=”/pagelink.php”>Subtitle 2</a></li>
<li><a href=”/pagelink.php”>Subtitle 3</a></li>
<li><a href=”/pagelink.php”>Subtitle 4</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href=”#”>TITLE B</a>
<ul>
<li><a href=”/pagelink.php”>Subtitle 1</a></li>
<li><a href=”/pagelink.php”>Subtitle 2</a></li>
<li><a href=”/pagelink.php”>Subtitle 3</a></li>
<li><a href=”/pagelink.php”>Subtitle 4</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Of course you can put links on the titles instead of ‘#’. The point is – it HAS to be a link – even if it is null (#)
Now for the CSS. First I have put in the absolute stripped down CSS ‘as is’ and the ACTUAL Symsys menu Style colours, sizes, paddings and margins. You will see that the result is quite unbloated, short and sweet.
After this, I will put the humongous annotated sheet so you know what does WHAT, and where to change to your custom style.
CSS – TRIMMED
#topnav {display:none;}
html>body #topnav {display:block;}
#topnav {position:absolute; margin-left:300px; margin-left:115px; top:159px; font-size:0; text-align:left;}
*—–Yes NEED margin in twice——*/
.nav li{display:inline;}
.nav li ul{padding-top:2px;}
ul.nav { margin-top:5px;}
ul.nav, .nav ul{margin:0; padding:0; cursor:default; list-style-type:none;}
ul.nav>li{display:table-cell; padding:1px; width:120px; float:left;}
ul.nav li>ul{display:none;}
ul.nav li:hover>ul{display:block;}
.nav ul li a{display:block; padding: 2px 4px 2px 4px;}
.nav li a {color:#fff; padding-left:4px;}
.nav ul li a{background-color:#EAEAEA; color:#000; width:112px; margin-top:1px;}
ul.nav li:hover {background-color:#28a3c5;}
.nav ul li a:hover{background-color:#fc0; color:#000;}
ul.nav li:active,
.nav ul li a:active{background-color:#44C21F; color:#FFF;}
.nav a{font:bold 12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration:none;}
Yes, that was IT. And now for the maybe excessively annotated version. I will apologise if some things are not too clear to you personally but hopefully you will find it easy to follow.
CSS – EXPLAINED
#topnav {display:none;}
html>body #topnav {display:block;}/*—– These 2 lines Hide from IE6 and older ALTOGETHER——*/
#topnav {
position:absolute;/*—–place exactly where I WANT it to appear——*/
margin-left:300px;
*—–usual IE Fix of following position:absolute with Position: relative will not work
Re-adjust the margin to correct IE Invented placement. Big headed MS will read the FIRST instance of a repeat element as THEIRS and ignore any repeat element afterwards…(sounds typically fitting for that company lol). All the other browsers that follow code convention properly will see the first, then see the second and update/use that instead——*/
margin-left: 115px;
top: 159px;
/*width:9999px;—makes no difference —-*/
font-size: 0; /*—–fix menu placement – all browsers unified——*/
text-align:left; /*—–If you want menu Items Centered then change it——*/
}
.nav li{
display:inline; /*no difference in all other browsers but REQUIRED for IE (7)*/
}
.nav li ul{
padding-top: 2px; /*padding at top (UNDER heading) of the entire submenus ONLY–*/
/* padding-bottom:5px; OPTINAL padding at bottom of the entire submenus ONLY – or use MARGIN – Does Not matter – get the SAME result in all browsers–*/
}
ul.nav { margin-top: 5px;}
/*display:table;—makes no difference inline, table, whatever—-*/
/*position:relative;—makes no difference —-*/
ul.nav,
.nav ul{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
cursor: default;
list-style-type: none; /*—gets rid of horrid bullet points and associated indents—-*/
} /*display: inline;no difference in ANY browser–*/
ul.nav>li{
display: table-cell;/*—needs to be ‘TABLE-CELL’ or screws up ALL Menus – This ALSO hide the entire menu from ancient browsers (nice one) —-*/
/*display: inline;–screws up ALL Menus all do an IE and put subsequents AND Subs underneath–*/
/*position:relative;—makes no difference —-*/
padding: 1px ; /* This effectively puts 1px border extended around submenupopup – optional – make anything you want – will effect overall width of menu so may have to reduce widths unanimously to compensate—-*/
width:120px; /*Specified width of menu Tabs–*/
float:left; /*IE (7) ONLY diff – doesnt plonk subsequent and subs underneath on hover -*/
}
ul.nav li>ul{
display: none; /*obviously – don’t show submenu normally—-*/
/*position:relative;—makes no difference —-*/
}
ul.nav li:hover>ul{
display : block;/*obviously – show submenu only when the mouse is over it—*/
/*position:relative; Makes stuff all difference –*/
}
.nav ul li a{
display: block;
padding: 2px 4px 2px 4px;/*padding around submenu links order- top right bottom left (clockwise) */
/*border-top: 1px solid #000; optional entries – of course, my example has border extended aound it already making a bottom line*/
}
.nav li a { color:#000;/*** Menu Title color only!!!!! ***/
padding-left:4px;}/*** Left and right padding effective ONLY for menu titles here – probably best to match padding of submenu items as above***/
/* padding-top:9999px;}** this may appear to be a silly entry BUT in all browsers apart from IE (7) it creates an invisible hotspot extending in this case 9999px above the menu title TEXT width. Cool trick – handy if you want it – nuke it if you dont. Take it out of comment to try***/
.nav ul li a{
background-color: #EAEAEA;/*** bg col of entire submenu***/
color: #000;/*** text col of entire submenu***/
width: 112px;/*fixes sub width Firefox*/ /* width minus padding (both sides) of sub items to compensate eg if 4 – same width as header cell 120 – (2×4 left right padding)= 112—-*/
margin-top: 1px;} /*put this in IF you WANT a gop between each submenu item – the background of extended top item background will show behind***/
ul.nav li:hover {
background-color: #28a3c5;} /*** Only open menu header and matching extended border around who menu/submenu if opted for) ***/
.nav ul li a:hover{
background-color: #fc0;
color: #000; /*** text col and bg col of submenu individual li items on hover – mine are kept black – you can choose different***/
}
ul.nav li:active,
.nav ul li a:active{
background-color: #44C21F;/*** text col and bg col of submenu individual li items on Click / active***/
color: #FFF;
}/*** Browser differences – on click the title item will also change bg col including any visable background between menu item blocks. (not title txt col aswell) This is in Chrome Firefox Opera Netscape Flock- but not in IE – See notes for versions tested**Of course, you can always just remove ul.nav li:active,*/
.nav a{
font:bold 12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-decoration: none;
}
Further Comments
IE7 and Maxthon 2 – on load, it millisend hops to the right then puts it where it should – not really an issue just typically lame coding by Microsoft (Hey, I use XP Pro, have done for years and although it does get bogged down I am happy enough with it – I outright refuse to entertain vista or the upcoming Windows 7 though)
Minimal layout glitch on Opera 9 – all good – though does put a visable padding above the title items by about 2px – shoving it all down a tad ( and no, it is nothing to do with the 2px padding under the title header being applied. Let me know if you fix this “pwetty pweeeease”.
Learning CSS and VALID code…. The rule of thumb is, if youre not having any trouble in IE, then theres something wrong with your code – youre not doing it right–
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Ok, this bug took me about 5 minutes to figure out myself, but I was probaby just lucky and in the right mood. I thought it may be worth posting however short and sweet so at least one solution is direct to the point.
When even this page on W3C missed a vital end tag (first ever seen – these guys are my bible), I thought it be a good thing just to have another post out there to clarify the correct syntax. (When I get a dog it is going to be called ‘syntax’ as it seems to be what we do most lately!)
How to validate < noscript > tags in XHTML STRICT
No, you do not need <object> tags
And what is all this about being child of a <p> tag?
I have seen a few things like mismatched and messed up nested tags to get around this.
Maybe it is just a problem with html within VBScript and the like that drags up even more validation issues. So many have blogged about that, that the regular XHTML and CSS straight strict solutions just got buried.
Straight up solution to try :
<script> the script</script>
<noscipt>
<p>
Alternate Content
</p>
</noscript>
Thats IT.
Just put <p> enclosing the alternate code content inside noscripts </p>
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Ever since the recent update of WordPress to the new WordPress 2.6.2 all the How To’s out there on the web are getting slightly out of date due to things not being the same in the code of the updated WordPress. This naturally causes some confusion with those out there that are not used to editing PHP and are cautious about editing source code.
This is to correct the layout glitch of the what should be a simple function of adding post counts next to category items.
The easy part – adding the function in the WordPress Site Admin.
Go to Design >> Widgets >> Edit the ‘Categories’ widget (of course make sure it is added as a current widget)
Tick the box that says ‘Show Post Counts’ – hit ‘Change’, then ‘Save Changes’ at the bottom.
Problem occurs that the post count is displayed as a link UNDER the category text making the list very messy and very long. The purpose of this post is to simply give the correct line numbers and exact code that exists in wordpress 2.6.2 which is different from older versions and make it easier for people.
Download ‘ classes.php’ from the ‘wp-includes’ directory and edit is as follows.
lines 674 & 645 says
if ( isset($show_count) && $show_count )
$link .= ' (' . intval($category->count) . ')';
Comment this out by putting in two forward slashes // or simply delete it.
On line 644
REPLACE :
$link .= $cat_name . '';
WITH:
$link .= $cat_name;
if ( isset($show_count) && $show_count ) {
$link .= ' (' . intval($category->count) . ')'. '';
}
Save and upload it again to overwrite the original classes.php in the wp-includes directory and thats it – Done.
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Robots txt bot list update Oct 08
It has come to the time to do another website clean up. This generally involves sitewide link and accessibility checks, making sure the sitemap is correct etc. It can be a rather sporatic event that I turn my mind to Robots.txt and htaccess. In order to keep things relatively simple, this page is a bad bot list recompiled from old and new records for Robots.TXT only.
PLEASE NOTE: that this will not prevent bad bots completely by any means! There are many bots that ignore the robots.txt altogether so the fact that this text file does include older bots is actually a good thing since they are the more likely to still be actually reading the file.
I had the thought again today, that sometimes it may not be the best idea to shut out so many of these bots. I know we don’t want the site ripped off (not that robots.txt is going to make a difference to that). I know we do’nt want spam marketing emails galore. I just have to point out that some of the higher google ranked websites are turning out to not be the ones that enforce exhaustive security on robots and htaccess. There is Cautious, Meticulous and darned right Anal and Overboard.
If you look through this list, you will see that when a robot version is discovered, another is released and can be as simple as a name change, no matter how small to break though the disallow list. Always remember, Nothing is infallible, and if someone wants IN, they WILL get in – end. Saying that, it is still a good idea to list many of these robots. Some are above board marketing companies with ethics that will honour the txt file (well we like to think so). A lot of these are part of commercial and open software releases that anyone can use – so if you don’t want thier program to work on your site, then you can tell it so.
Best effort has been made to remove any duplicate entires and get it into a general albhabetic order. I never use anyone elses code without checking it over, checking syntax etc so neither should you.
How do you find the latest bots? – with a watchful eye on your raw access logs. Many robots / crawlers often include links to thier source so that you can find out who it is and what the robots is doing so that you can decide for yourself wether to add it to your disallow list or not. If you are the sort that wants to ‘look’ like your web hits are through the roof on say ‘webalizer’ then you may aswell allow the lot…. I prefer to only monitor real humans and the crawlers I DO want, not lies and statistics.
DON’T FORGET:
Disallow ANYTHING including Google from your Cgi-bin, private, secure etc folders
Example:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
The ‘Google Hacking Database’ has become a quite popular pastime for many.
Example, ‘secret’ folders are easily reached by searching for intitle:index.of.secret in google.
It is all the same for ‘secure’, ‘cgi-bin’, /tmp and so on. Just go see for yourself
There is a handy little database which tells you more about some of the robots and what they do by name on robotstxt.org
User-agent: 216.34.209.23
Disallow: /
User-agent: aipbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /
User-agent: Alexibot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Aqua_Products
Disallow: /
User-agent: asterias
Disallow: /
User-agent: b2w/0.1
Disallow: /
User-agent: BackDoorBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: BackDoorBot/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: Black.Hole
Disallow: /
User-agent: BlackWidow
Disallow: /
User-agent: BlowFish
Disallow: /
User-agent: BlowFish/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bookmark search tool
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bot mailto:craftbot@yahoo.com
Disallow: /
User-agent: BotALot
Disallow: /
User-agent: BotRightHere
Disallow: /
User-agent: BuiltBotTough
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bullseye
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bullseye/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: BunnySlippers
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User-agent: b2w/0.1
Disallow: /
User-agent: becomebot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Cegbfeieh
Disallow: /
User-agent: CheeseBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: CherryPicker
Disallow: /
User-agent: CherryPickerElite/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: CherryPickerSE/1.0
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User-agent: ChinaClaw
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User-agent: Copernic
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User-agent: CopyRightCheck
Disallow: /
User-agent: Crescent
Disallow: /
User-agent: Crescent Internet ToolPak HTTP OLE Control v.1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: Custo
Disallow: /
User-agent: cosmos
Disallow: /
User-agent: DISCo
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User-agent: DISCo Pump 3.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: DISCo Pump 3.2
Disallow: /
User-agent: DISCoFinder
Disallow: /
User-agent: DittoSpyder
Disallow: /
User-agent: Download Demon
Disallow: /
User-agent: Download Demon/3.2.0.8
Disallow: /
User-agent: Download Demon/3.5.0.11
Disallow: /
User-agent: dumbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: eCatch
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User-agent: eCatch/3.0
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User-agent: EirGrabber
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User-agent: EmailCollector
Disallow: /
User-agent: EmailSiphon
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User-agent: EmailWolf
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User-agent: EroCrawler
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User-agent: Express WebPictures
Disallow: /
User-agent: Express WebPictures (www.express-soft.com)
Disallow: /
User-agent: ExtractorPro
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User-agent: EyeNetIE
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User-agent: Enterprise_Search
Disallow: /
User-agent: Enterprise_Search/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: es
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User-agent: FairAd Client
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User-agent: Flaming AttackBot
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User-agent: FlashGet
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User-agent: FlashGet WebWasher 3.2
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User-agent: Foobot
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User-agent: FrontPage
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User-agent: FrontPage [NC,OR]
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User-agent: Fasterfox
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User-agent: Gaisbot
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User-agent: GetRight
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User-agent: GetRight/2.11
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User-agent: GetRight/3.1
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User-agent: GetRight/3.2
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User-agent: GetRight/3.3
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User-agent: GetRight/3.3.3
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User-agent: GetRight/3.3.4
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User-agent: GetRight/4.0.0
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User-agent: GetRight/4.1.0
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User-agent: GetRight/4.1.1
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User-agent: GetRight/4.1.2
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User-agent: GetRight/4.2
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User-agent: GetRight/4.2b (Portuguxeas)
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User-agent: GetRight/4.2c
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User-agent: GetRight/4.3
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User-agent: GetRight/4.5
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User-agent: GetRight/4.5a
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User-agent: GetRight/4.5d
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User-agent: GetRight/4.5e
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User-agent: GetRight/5.0beta1
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User-agent: GetRight/5.0beta2
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User-agent: GetWeb!
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User-agent: Go!Zilla
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User-agent: Go!Zilla (www.gozilla.com)
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User-agent: Go!Zilla 3.3 (www.gozilla.com)
Disallow: /
User-agent: Go!Zilla 3.5 (www.gozilla.com)
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User-agent: Go-Ahead-Got-It
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User-agent: GrabNet
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User-agent: Grafula
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User-agent: grub
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User-agent: grub-client
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User-agent: HMView
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User-agent: HTTrack
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User-agent: HTTrack 3.0
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User-agent: HTTrack [NC,OR]
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User-agent: Harvest
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User-agent: Harvest/1.5
Disallow: /
User-agent: hloader
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User-agent: httplib
Disallow: /
User-agent: humanlinks
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User-agent: ia_archiver
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User-agent: ia_archiver/1.6
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User-agent: IconSurf
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User-agent: Image Stripper
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User-agent: ImageWalker/2.0
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User-agent: Image Sucker
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User-agent: Indy Library
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User-agent: Indy Library [NC,OR]
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User-agent: InfoNaviRobot
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User-agent: InterGET
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User-agent: Internet Ninja
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User-agent: InternetSeer.com
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User-agent: Internet Ninja 4.0
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User-agent: Internet Ninja 5.0
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User-agent: Internet Ninja 6.0
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User-agent: Iron33/1.0.2
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User-agent: JOC Web Spider
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User-agent: JennyBot
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User-agent: JetCar
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User-agent: Kenjin Spider
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User-agent: Kenjin.Spider
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User-agent: Keyword Density/0.9
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User-agent: Keyword.Density
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User-agent: LNSpiderguy
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User-agent: LeechFTP
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User-agent: LexiBot
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User-agent: LinkScan/8.1a Unix
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User-agent: LinkWalker
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User-agent: LinkWalker/2.0
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User-agent: LinkextractorPro
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User-agent: larbin
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User-agent: larbin (samualt9@bigfoot.com)
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User-agent: larbin_2.6.2 (kabura@sushi.com)
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User-agent: larbin_2.6.2 (listonATccDOTgatechDOTedu)
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User-agent: larbin_2.6.2 (vitalbox1@hotmail.com)
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User-agent: larbin_2.6.2 kabura@sushi.com
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User-agent: larbin_2.6.2 larbin2.6.2@unspecified.mail
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User-agent: larbin_2.6.2 larbin@correa.org
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User-agent: larbin_2.6.2 listonATccDOTgatechDOTedu
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User-agent: larbin_2.6.2 vitalbox1@hotmail.com
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User-agent: libWeb/clsHTTP
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User-agent: lwp-trivial
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User-agent: looksmart
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User-agent: lwp-trivial/1.34
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User-agent: MJ12bot
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User-agent: MIDown tool
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User-agent: MIIxpc
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User-agent: MIIxpc/4.2
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User-agent: MSIECrawler
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User-agent: Mass Downloader
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User-agent: Mass Downloader/2.2
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User-agent: Mata Hari
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User-agent: Mata.Hari
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User-agent: Microsoft URL Control
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User-agent: Microsoft URL Control - 5.01.4511
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User-agent: Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8169
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User-agent: Microsoft.URL
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User-agent: Mister PiX
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User-agent: Mister PiX version.dll
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User-agent: Mister Pix II 2.01
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User-agent: Mister Pix II 2.02a
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User-agent: Mister.PiX
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User-agent: moget
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User-agent: moget/2.1
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User-agent: naver
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User-agent: NICErsPRO
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User-agent: NPBot
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User-agent: Navroad
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User-agent: Net Vampire
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User-agent: Net Vampire/3.0
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User-agent: NetAnts
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User-agent: NetAnts/1.10
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User-agent: NetAnts/1.23
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User-agent: NetAnts/1.24
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User-agent: NetAnts/1.25
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User-agent: NetMechanic
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User-agent: NetSpider
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User-agent: NetZIP
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User-agent: NetZip Downloader 1.0 Win32(Nov 12 1998)
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User-agent: NetZip-Downloader/1.0.62 (Win32; Dec 7 1998)
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User-agent: NetZippy+(http://www.innerprise.net/usp-spider.asp)
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User-agent: Octopus
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User-agent: Offline Explorer
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User-agent: Offline Explorer/1.2
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User-agent: Offline Explorer/1.4
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User-agent: Offline Explorer/1.6
Disallow: /
User-agent: Offline Explorer/1.7
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User-agent: Offline Explorer/1.9
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User-agent: Offline Explorer/2.0
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User-agent: Offline Explorer/2.1
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User-agent: Offline Explorer/2.3
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User-agent: Offline Explorer/2.4
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User-agent: Offline Explorer/2.5
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User-agent: Offline Navigator
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User-agent: Offline.Explorer
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User-agent: Openbot
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User-agent: Openfind
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User-agent: Openfind data gatherer
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User-agent: Oracle Ultra Search
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User-agent: pavuk
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User-agent: PerMan
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User-agent: pcBrowser
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User-agent: psbot
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User-agent: PageGrabber
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User-agent: Papa Foto
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User-agent: PerMan
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User-agent: ProPowerBot/2.14
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User-agent: ProWebWalker
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User-agent: Python-urllib
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User-agent: QueryN Metasearch
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User-agent: QueryN.Metasearch
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User-agent: RMA
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User-agent: Radiation Retriever 1.1
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User-agent: ReGet
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User-agent: RealDownload
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User-agent: RealDownload/4.0.0.40
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User-agent: RealDownload/4.0.0.41
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User-agent: RealDownload/4.0.0.42
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User-agent: RepoMonkey
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User-agent: RepoMonkey Bait & Tackle/v1.01
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User-agent: SBIder
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User-agent: SBIder/SBIder-0.8.2-dev
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User-agent: SiteSnagger
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User-agent: SlySearch
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User-agent: SmartDownload
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User-agent: SmartDownload/1.2.76 (Win32; Apr 1 1999)
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User-agent: SmartDownload/1.2.77 (Win32; Aug 17 1999)
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User-agent: SmartDownload/1.2.77 (Win32; Feb 1 2000)
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User-agent: SmartDownload/1.2.77 (Win32; Jun 19 2001)
Disallow: /
User-agent: SpankBot
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User-agent: sootle
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User-agent: Sqworm/2.9.85-BETA (beta_release; 20011115-775; i686-pc-linux
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User-agent: SuperBot
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User-agent: SuperBot/3.0 (Win32)
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User-agent: SuperBot/3.1 (Win32)
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User-agent: SuperHTTP
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User-agent: SuperHTTP/1.0
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User-agent: Surfbot
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User-agent: Szukacz/1.4
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User-agent: searchpreview
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User-agent: spanner
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User-agent: SurveyBot
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User-agent: suzuran
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User-agent: tAkeOut
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User-agent: Teleport
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User-agent: TeleportPro
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User-agent: Teleport Pro/1.29
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User-agent: Teleport Pro/1.29.1590
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User-agent: Teleport Pro/1.29.1634
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User-agent: Teleport Pro/1.29.1718
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User-agent: Teleport Pro/1.29.1820
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User-agent: Teleport Pro/1.29.1847
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User-agent: Telesoft
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User-agent: The Intraformant
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User-agent: The.Intraformant
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User-agent: TheNomad
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User-agent: TightTwatBot
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User-agent: toCrawl/UrlDispatcher
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User-agent: True_Robot
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User-agent: True_Robot/1.0
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User-agent: turingos
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User-agent: TurnitinBot
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User-agent: TurnitinBot/1.5
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User-agent: Titan
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User-agent: URL Control
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User-agent: URL_Spider_Pro
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User-agent: URLy Warning
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User-agent: URLy.Warning
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User-agent: VCI
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User-agent: VCI WebViewer VCI WebViewer Win32
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User-agent: VoidEYE
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User-agent: WWW-Collector-E
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User-agent: WWWOFFLE
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User-agent: Web Image Collector
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User-agent: Web Sucker
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User-agent: Web.Image.Collector
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User-agent: WebAuto
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User-agent: WebAuto/3.40 (Win98; I)
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User-agent: WebBandit
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User-agent: WebBandit/3.50
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User-agent: WebCapture 2.0
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User-agent: WebCopier
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User-agent: WebCopier v.2.2
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User-agent: WebCopier v2.5
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User-agent: WebCopier v2.6
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User-agent: WebCopier v2.7a
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User-agent: WebCopier v2.8
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User-agent: WebCopier v3.0
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User-agent: WebCopier v3.0.1
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User-agent: WebCopier v3.2
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User-agent: WebCopier v3.2a
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User-agent: WebEMailExtrac.*
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User-agent: WebEnhancer
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User-agent: WebFetch
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User-agent: webfetch/2.1.0
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User-agent: WebGo IS
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User-agent: WebLeacher
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User-agent: WebReaper
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User-agent: WebReaper [info@webreaper.net]
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User-agent: WebReaper [webreaper@otway.com]
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebReaper v9.1 - www.otway.com/webreaper
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User-agent: WebReaper v9.7 - www.webreaper.net
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User-agent: WebReaper v9.8 - www.webreaper.net
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User-agent: WebReaper vWebReaper v7.3 - www,otway.com/webreaper
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User-agent: WebSauger
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User-agent: WebSauger 1.20b
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User-agent: WebSauger 1.20j
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User-agent: WebSauger 1.20k
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User-agent: WebStripper
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User-agent: WebStripper/2.03
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User-agent: WebStripper/2.10
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User-agent: WebStripper/2.12
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User-agent: WebStripper/2.13
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User-agent: WebStripper/2.15
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User-agent: WebStripper/2.16
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User-agent: WebStripper/2.19
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User-agent: Website Quester
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User-agent: Webster Pro
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User-agent: WebZip
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User-agent: WebWhacker
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User-agent: WebZIP/2.75 (http://www.spidersoft.com)
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User-agent: WebZIP/3.65 (http://www.spidersoft.com)
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User-agent: WebZIP/3.80 (http://www.spidersoft.com)
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User-agent: WebZIP/4.1 (http://www.spidersoft.com)
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User-agent: WebZIP/4.21
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User-agent: WebZIP/4.21 (http://www.spidersoft.com)
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User-agent: WebZIP/5.0
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User-agent: WebZIP/5.0 PR1 (http://www.spidersoft.com)
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User-agent: WebZIP/7.0
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User-agent: WebZip/4.0
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User-agent: wget
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User-agent: Wget/1.5.3
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User-agent: Wget/1.6
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User-agent: Wget/1.5.2
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User-agent: Wget/1.7
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User-agent: Wget/1.8
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User-agent: Wget/1.8.1
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User-agent: Wget/1.8.1+cvs
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User-agent: Wget/1.8.2
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User-agent: Wget/1.9-beta
Disallow: /
User-agent: Widow
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User-agent: WebmasterWorldForumBot
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User-agent: Website Quester
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User-agent: Website Quester - www.asona.org
Disallow: /
User-agent: Website Quester - www.esalesbiz.com/extra/
Disallow: /
User-agent: Website eXtractor
Disallow: /
User-agent: Website eXtractor (http://www.asona.org)
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebmasterWorldForumBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Xaldon WebSpider
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User-agent: Xaldon WebSpider 2.5.b3
Disallow: /
User-agent: Xenu's
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User-agent: Xenu's Link Sleuth 1.1c
Disallow: /
User-agent: Zeus
Disallow: /
User-agent: Zeus 11389 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 11652 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 18018 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 26378 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 30747 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 32297 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 39206 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 41641 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 44238 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 51070 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
Disallow: /
User-agent: Zeus 51674 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
Disallow: /
User-agent: Zeus 51837 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 63567 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 6694 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 71129 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 82016 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 82900 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 84842 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
Disallow: /
User-agent: Zeus 90872 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 94934 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 95245 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
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User-agent: Zeus 95351 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
Disallow: /
User-agent: Zeus 97371 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
Disallow: /
User-agent: Zeus Link Scout
Disallow: /
Now, you may agree that this list is now BEYOND ridiculous, and will not include the probably about another 10 maliscious robots only yesterday.
I think its would be a far better and wiser approach to simply make a robots.txt that bans the lot apart from a safe Good robot list if there is such a thing!
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