Bots / Spiders safe?

[joesdomain]

On my site, i get alot of Yahoo! Slurp Spiders and alot of MSNBots. If i allow them, i get people all around the world registering and i get alot of people wanting to post porn and viagra links etc. Is this good to ban these search engines?

My web site is a Northern Ontario trading post and i only allow new members from my region

Joe

[David Grove]

The Yahoo and MSN bots index your forums so your forums appear in their search engines. They have nothing to do with spam registrations.

[joesdomain]

ok thanks. Ive notice people from Saudia Arabia registering and posting crap.

Joe

[Steve Machol]

That's a different issue. Please see this thread: How to Reduce Spam and Registration Bots

[joesdomain]

That's a different issue. Please see this thread: How to Reduce Spam and Registration Bots

this i have done. ive also tracked the offenders IP address and banned that. i see alot og MSNBots, google etc and see in some messages to make up a robots.txt what do you think about this? My web site is a trading post (regional) i do not want anyone else using it

Joe