Terry! What are these cool "snare" files?? There are programs that open a large number of download channels and "leach" information as fast as they possibly can. Thus, one user can clog the entire site's bandwidth. Since I have about 10Gig of data online. They are never going to gt it all... So the clog just goes on for hours, days, weeks... "normally" the robots.txt files will stop "nice" robots. However, perhaps because of this site's cool nature, we get a lot of robots that ignor the robots.txt file. These snare files just make it easy to detect these unfriendly robots "early" and firewall them out. The files are just filled with random data that has been zipped with a long forgotton password and copied into a number of files to catch many channels. Only a totally blind robot would not figure it out... Cheers, Terry