Err Msg: Spider List Is Too Long. Please Enter a Shorter List.

ID: Q216943

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Site Server version 3.0

SYMPTOMS

When you copy an exclusion list that is too long into the Usage Import Crawler list, the following error message occurs:

Spider list is too long. Please enter a shorter list

If you shorten the entries in the list by about half, the error message will not occur anymore; however, if close Usage Import and start it again, the entries that were just entered do not appear, and only the default entries, which were inserted after the installation, are visible.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, apply the latest Site Server 3.0 service pack.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Site Server version 3.0. This problem has been corrected in the latest U.S. service pack for Microsoft Site Server version 3.0. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Additional query words:

Keywords : SS3SP2Fix
Version : winnt:3.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug