I doubt they'll respect it... they aren't kind at ALL...

Well, I tried the IP banning approach. We'll see how it goes.

One thing though: We're on 7.2.2, and at one point I was seeing a bunch of twiceler requests in the accesslog, but I don't see anything other than google, msn, and yahoo in the spider list on the who's online page. Is this because of our version being slightly older or does cuil do something different to simply show up as an anonymous user?

Also, I noticed from our logs that they're using the 38.99.44.x subnet as well, so I added that.

Well, the UserAgent needs to be added to the CP, otherwise the search engine will show as anon...

There is a thread here somewhere showing different UA strings that several of us worked on... I really should sticky it, wherever it is...

Gizmo,

Allow me to make a very small contribution.

Here are two relevant threads. Perhaps one of these is the one you were thinking of.

UA Strings 1

UA Strings 2

Yes, this was what I was thinking of...

Well, blocking the IP's has worked to keep twiceler off the site for the past few days, so thanks for the help on that one.

Of course, the bad news is that twiceler was not the source of our problems. Back to the drawing board on that one.

I appreciate the help on the UserAgent(s). That's been quite useful.

When putting the codes in I am experiencing a 403 error message, I went to htaccess and copy and pasted at the bottom but every time I save it I get the above error message, thoughts....Blake