Someone at MS just got banned!

Was Bill Gates Surfing My site?

[carfac]

Hi:

Just saw this guy, fell into a spider trap:

131.107.137.47 - - [11/Apr/2003:01:31:08 -0600] "GET /a/deep/link.html HTTP/1.1" 200 12589 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)"

No referer, came in on a deep link (like from a SE), and d/l pages but no images. After about 5 hits, he tried to grab a trap, and got banned. Grabbed a page every 5 secs or so...

IP resolves to Redmond.... did Bill just get himself banned?

dave

[mil2k]

Wow! What a turn this thread has taken. From Bots(of which i know nothing) to Microsoft(of which i know something!).

Windows 98 had an inbuilt Browser (IE 4) as a part of it's interface. The real reason was the Browser war(with Netscape) and to dominate their product.

Windows XP has an inbuilt Compression utility that infuriated third party vendors like Winzip.

Longhorn has "a refined search interface that lets users dig through local files, contacts, and the Internet."

This just fits into the Microsoft Pattern and goes with their aim of competing with google.

Their desired result is Microsoft everywhere for Everything.