[Gadget_Guy]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

What the mod does is look for the string you entered, so if you want to ban the spider i mentioned above just Simon will do it, howevere lets say you have a friendly bot called Simon Lloyd Crawled Everything Everywherespider then to ban the first bot and allow the other you'd need to enter a string that is unique to the first one so in this case i could be:
Simon Lloyd Crawl Everything
This way it wont pick up the "Crawl" in the friendly bots name as its looking for the exact string you entered.

Hope that helps.

This COULD be the issue I have with mine then. When you look at my txt file you will see that I tried putting in multiple variations. That could be negating the effectiveness.

Maybe as part of the mod could be an updated list that we can copy/paste so that people like me who are clueless don't do the wrong thing.

Keeping in mind that we would want the "good" spiders to get through like google, bing, and the legit ones that are important to SEO, Adsense, and other things like that.

I hope you and Ozzy are disscusing the hook thing as well... he seemed to think that may be important with my 4.2.2 site.

I will say that when I had this mod in place for my 3.8.x site it worked perfectly and I didn't get hit hard till I upgraded to 4.2.2

I saw my server loads go way up....

D.