Ok, I guess it's not really a robot, but metacrawler does connect to sites such as altavista.com and masquerade as a client -- somewhat similar to what robots do.
I've always been curious -- why doesn't altavista block access from the IP's owned by metacrawler.com? Metacrawler slows down altavista, and they don't make any money from banner ads (since metacrawler strips the banner ads off of the pages returned by altavista). - aj -- "Nobody has any 'Rights'. We are entitled only to Liberties" Adam Megacz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- for current phone/postal, see http://www.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/finger?[EMAIL PROTECTED]