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Block? Nope, robots.txt does not block the bots. It's just a text file that says: "Hey robot X, please do not crawl my website. Thanks :>"
I disallow a page in my robots.txt and ip-ban everyone who goes there. Thats pretty effective.
Not sure if that is effective at all. Why would a crawler check the robots.txt if it's programmed to ignore it anyways?
You could also place the same page as a hidden link on your home page.