Altavista spider very confused

Yesterday AltaVista's spider (Scooter/3.3) crawled over 100,000 pages  
at my site, http://www.isna.org (which actually only has 328 rows in  
table nodes). At a rate of one per second. For nearly a whole day.  
Sheesh!
The stupidest looking fetches are like this:

66.94.232.246 - - [23/Nov/2004:02:39:59 -0800] "GET  
/drupal/new?from=297&sort=asc&order=title& 
amp;from=0&sort=asc& 
amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;order=type& 
from=40&sort=asc& 
amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;order=title& 
amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;from=20& 
amp;amp;sort=asc& 
order=title& 
from=257& 
sort=asc& 
amp;order=type& 
amp;amp;from=60& 
amp;amp;amp;amp;sort=asc& 
amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;order=title& 
amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;order=title HTTP/1.0"  
200 29532 "-" "Scooter/3.3"
How to prevent it from doing this? Searching the web finds others (not  
drupal users) also complaining about Scooter, eg  
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum1/2273.htm.
Thanks,

Cheryl

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