>No consensus supported here. I think a gripes forum would elevate the
>present robot hysteria, contributing much more heat than light.
>
>People seem to assume that badly behaved robots are sucking away bandwith
>horribly and tying up servers.
They often do just that.
>In almost three years of having various
>servers on-line, I have only seen one robot tie up a server so much that it
>was a problem.
lucky you, then :-)
rob