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keyplyr

9:42 am on Oct 12, 2009 (gmt 0)

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rDNS: 84-75-179-***.dclient.hispeed.ch [verified]
robots.txt: no
Swiss ISP

Acted like bot, no image or flat files.

keyplyr

6:31 am on Oct 13, 2009 (gmt 0)

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May be a "broken link checker." Some checkers do not request robots.txt, some do.

This is a fine line. IMO if something is crawling my web site, it's a spider/crawler and should request/follow robots.txt. May be another example of Swiss neutrality.