My understanding of the file is that it has to be in the root directory of the webserver. -- Nate Eckstine (DoIT) City of Seattle Department of Information Technology 700 Fifth Ave. Suite 2700 Seattle, WA 98124-4709 USA Work (206) 733-9658 Fax (206) 684-0911 >>> Darren Evans-Young <[log in to unmask]> 10/31/2007 2:30 PM >>> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Nate Eckstine wrote: >Try this. > >Place a robots.txt file into the root of the web server with this text in it. Asterisks aren't in the file. > >************************************* > ># robots.txt for http://yourservernamehere > >User-agent: * >Disallow: / > >************************************* > >This will stop all spiders and bots from searching anything on the server. The ones that respect the robots.txt file. > >Search on google for robots.txt if you want to customize it. > > >-- >Nate Eckstine (DoIT CityWide Webteam) I figured something like that would work. But I dont have access to the web server doc root. Would putting this in Listserv's archives directory prevent their bot from searching just that directory (and down)? Darren