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Is Voyager BOT safe? and how would we know which bot is spam and which is not?

IIRC, that's used for a translation service. It's been a while since someone has mentioned it, so I might be wrong.

It's nothing harmful. Spam bots usually won't have a custom user-agent, they'll be faked to look like a real browser (E.g. Firefox).

Yes it is.

http://www.robotstxt.org/db/voyager.html

You can get a list of search engine bots at http://www.robotstxt.org/db.html.

Thanks both of you

(2011-10-03, 06:56 PM)Malcolm. Wrote: [ -> ]Spam bots usually won't have a custom user-agent, they'll be faked to look like a real browser (E.g. Firefox).

Didn't get what you say

Spam bots won't have a user agent such as Voyager, they would have one like:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0a2) Gecko/20110613 Firefox/6.0a2