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---- MSN's many cloaked bots. Again.


dstiles - 4:56 pm on Sep 4, 2010 (gmt 0)


I'm seeing several hits during the past fortnight (approx 130, earliest 14th August from the range 65.55.25/24 with rDNS on the order of ns1.msft.net.(space here)msnhst.microsoft.com

All have the UA of:
msnbot/2.0b (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)._

Needless to say, all blocked.


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