How to slow the crawl rate of yahoo?

[billmat]

Hello members,

How do I slow the crawl rate of yahoo?
its killing my bandwidth 700 bots a day and putting extra strain on my server.

Please tell me How to do this?

[evantanski]

I don't think you could do that. You can always stop bots using robots.txt

[sbsl]

yes its right you could use robot.txt

[vanilla23]

you can set thru msn webmaster tool