From time to time we may also contact you with announcements about new NetMechanic features. Your address is kept strictly confidential and is not sold or distributed. If you wish to be removed from our mailing list, you can do so at any time. Robots are a fact of life on the Internet. If you've used Lycos, Alta Vista, InfoSeek or any other search engine, you've tapped into databases which were generated using robots.
Robots are software tools.
They are not inherently good or bad. However, poorly written robots can do serious damage to a Web site. Since a robot is an automated program, it can submit HTTP requests to a server at a very, very fast rate. This can overload the server to the point where it can't respond to requests from real human beings using real Web browsers. The solution to this is for the robot to take its time processing your Web site.