Many months ago I deactivated one store (localised to a language) within a Magento site, leaving the english store the only store live.
Looking in my Apache access logs, and also summarised in Logwatch, every day I still get GET requests from web crawlers (e.g. yahoo) that result in 404s, because they're trying to access pages from the deactivated site.
The sitemap for the deactivated store was removed long ago. Why are these 404s still happening and how would I go about stopping them?