From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 4 13: 7:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4FF937B400 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E2243E3B for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:07:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g84K7hLu031839 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:07:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g84K7hkw031836; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:07:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Macros in ipfw rules References: <20020903142632.GA71601@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> <443cspq4ll.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20020904133053.GA91519@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> <20020904133511.GD20573@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20020904144515.GC91519@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 04 Sep 2002 16:07:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20020904144515.GC91519@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> Message-ID: <447ki1frhs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > If that's all you want: > > > > http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html > > > > No need for firewall rules for that kind of thing. > > Aha! Exactly what I needed! Thanks a lot for that, Stijn. Note, however, that robots only pay attention to it if they want to. Legitimate search engines will pay attention, but spammers' "spiders" often won't. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message