Drreggae - 12:11 pm on Dec 28, 2007 (gmt 0)

Since a couple of weeks, the ask.com crawler,
crawler100.ask.com keeps crawling our entire website with
url-encoded spaces (% 20) appended to each URL, resulting
in our apache server telling it the "File does not exist"..

Since then we gradually see our ask.com traffic fading away.

I emailed them last week, but sofar no reply.

Has anyone else seen this, or have an explanation for it?