RE: [cobalt-users] Help. provider tells me my RAQ is using excessive bandwidth - hacked?

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> To my inexperienced eye, the only weird thing in the logs 
> that I could pick out (anyone written an explaination of the 
> log files contents?) is that the maillog has 2742 records 
> which seems a lot (I know I get a lot of spam sent to me but 
> not that much!) but it comes out to 
> around 66 mails per hour which is reasonable mail traffic in 
> just 41 hours. (The maillog covers a period of 41 hours.)
> 

Do you use robots.txt on your webs to tell robots not to visit certain
directories? I had to ban a couple of IPs of bad robots that didn't obey
the robots.txt file and were following my DMOZ interface. One had 60,000
hits in one day.

I used a .htaccess file to deny from webclipping.com for one.
-- 
Dan Kriwitsky