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

[carfac]

Seeing the new UA now, too.

I sent an e-mail.... let's see what I get back!

dave

[carfac]

What do ya know! They responded! And pretty quickly, too. I am going to point them to this tread, and hopefully they will comment on it here!

dave

[jim_w]

I silently removed their name from my newsletter

Well, so much for that! :-)

[MarieC]

Does anyone besides me consider how absurd it is that a "legitimate" Microsoft project would use a Hotmail address for feedback? I don't know, but that just seems not quite right.

[carfac]

jim:

>>>> I silently removed their name from my newsletter

Whoops. Sorry. :(

dave

[pendanticist]

Hey, carfac?

His name is Keith Birney and I sent him the url of this thread last evening explaining how he might like to be here before this discussion gets too far afield. You know, damage control.

While I'm here tonight and thinking about it: If Keith does not come to the boards, that does not neccessarily reflect upon that legitimacy of this new bot. Rather, it may only mean that he is busy answering all the others who've communicated with him.

I suggested he slow it down a bit.

He did mention: "(It found your site less than three minutes into the crawl.)"

Pendanticist.

[carfac]

pendanticist:

That is he- and he seemked very nice in the e-mail. But I still have no clue WHAT it is he is doing!

>>> It found your site less than three minutes into the crawl

My site?

dave

[carfac]

pendanticist:

That is he- and he seemked very nice in the e-mail. But I still have no clue WHAT it is he is doing!

>>> It found your site less than three minutes into the crawl

My site?

dave

[pendanticist]

I suggested he slow it down a bit.
He did mention: "(It found your site less than three minutes into the crawl.)"

I didn't suggest he slow it down out of sympathy for this thread, that's for sure. LOL.

No, Dave. That was about my site. ;)

Pendanticist.

[bobmark]

Did anyone ever get an answer as to who this is?

I am still getting hit at a ridulous rate and would like to know if I should ban it.