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Romeo - 12:28 pm on Nov 22, 2007 (gmt 0)


... and they are still active.

At least the IP address of the referrer-spam-bot now resolves to a valid "...search.live.com" name instead of the former invalid ".....phx.gbl". Did not check if they just changed IP addresses or finally fixed their DNS records.

livebot-65-55-210-70.search.live.com - - [22/Nov/2007:xx:xx:17 +0000] "GET /special/page.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 9820 "-" "msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)" 65.55.210.70

livebot-65-55-165-98.search.live.com - - [22/Nov/2007:xx:xx:49 +0000] "GET /special/page.htm HTTP/1.0" 403 213 "http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=special&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" 65.55.165.98

Apparently, they don't get the message ...


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