upside - 3:53 pm on Nov 30, 2002 (gmt 0)

I've been getting a tremendous ammount of hits from a bot with a useragent of "amzn_assoc". Its shown up at the following ip's this past week:

66.125.173.224
64.160.49.82
64.166.159.198
64.166.156.221
64.165.204.84
64.166.157.42

Does anyone know who/what this is? Any reason not to ban it? A search on google turned up nothing.

I know Amazon webservices uses a bot named "aranhabot" but does this one belong to Amazon?

P.S. - Thanks to all on Webmasterworld for all the good reading. I've been lurking for quite a long time!