#
# robots.txt inspired by http://www.wikipedia.org/ 
#
# Please note: There are a lot of pages on this site, and there are
# some misbehaved spiders out there that go _way_ too fast. If you're
# irresponsible, your access to the site may be blocked.
#

User-agent: UbiCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: DOC
Disallow: /

User-agent: Zao
Disallow: /

User-agent: sitecheck.internetseer.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: Zealbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MSIECrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: SiteSnagger
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebStripper
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebCopier
Disallow: /

User-agent: Fetch
Disallow: /

User-agent: Offline Explorer
Disallow: /

User-agent: Teleport
Disallow: /

User-agent: TeleportPro
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebZIP
Disallow: /

User-agent: linko
Disallow: /

User-agent: HTTrack
Disallow: /

User-agent: Microsoft.URL.Control
Disallow: /

User-agent: Xenu
Disallow: /

User-agent: larbin
Disallow: /

User-agent: libwww
Disallow: /

User-agent: ZyBORG
Disallow: /

User-agent: Download Ninja
Disallow: /

# Uses a ridiculously large amount of simultaneous requests to spider
User-agent: Spinn3r
Disallow: /

#
# Sorry, wget in its recursive mode is a frequent problem.
# Please read the man page and use it properly; there is a
# --wait option you can use to set the delay between hits,
# for instance.
#
User-agent: wget
Disallow: /

#
# The 'grub' distributed client has been *very* poorly behaved.
#
User-agent: grub-client
Disallow: /

#
# Doesn't follow robots.txt anyway, but...
#
User-agent: k2spider
Disallow: /

#
# Hits many times per second, not acceptable
# http://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html
User-agent: NPBot
Disallow: /

# A capture bot, downloads gazillions of pages with no public benefit
# http://www.webreaper.net/
User-agent: WebReaper
Disallow: /

#
# The rest is fine.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /DocumentClusterReader.aspx
Disallow: /NewsTrends.aspx
Disallow: /FlashNetwork.aspx
Disallow: /Search.aspx
Disallow: /GeoEvents.aspx
Disallow: /Network.aspx
Disallow: /ShowWidget.aspx
Disallow: /RequestContent.aspx
Disallow: /RequestEntity.aspx
Disallow: /Feedback.aspx
Disallow: /Login.aspx
Disallow: /Secure/Login.aspx

Disallow: /DocumentClusterReader.aspx?*
Disallow: /NewsTrends.aspx?*
Disallow: /FlashNetwork.aspx?*
Disallow: /Search.aspx?*
Disallow: /GeoEvents.aspx?*
Disallow: /Network.aspx?*
Disallow: /ShowWidget.aspx?*
Disallow: /RequestContent.aspx?*
Disallow: /RequestEntity.aspx?*
Disallow: /Feedback.aspx?*
Disallow: /Login.aspx?*
Disallow: /Secure/Login.aspx?*

Disallow: *&ReturnUrl
Disallow: *?ReturnUrl

Crawl-delay: 3