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MSNPTC/1.0 appears to be a poorly written spider bot. It has no concept of distributing requests. I am not the only person that thinks this: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum11/2845.htm http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/details/4800/index.html http://boardreader.com/t/Spiders_Crawlers_509179/MSNPTC_1_0_2849.html Let me demonstrate with an example: $ grep -c “MSNPTC/1.0” freshports.org-access.log 1975 $ grep “MSNPTC/1.0” freshports.org-access.log | head -1 219.142.53.25 – – [01/Nov/2007:16:52:00 -0400] “GET /login.php?origin=%2Fcommit.php%3Fcategory%3Dwww %26port%3Deventum%26files%3Dyes%26message_id …

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Some of you will have noticed that we had a short outage on the FreshPorts webserver yesterday. It would have appeared as if the webserver was not responding. It was being slow. Very slow. The cause is interesting. When I checked the logs, it was my ad server that was busy. So busy that nobody …

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