I was merrily blocking a really nasty spambot from keymachine.de tonight and watching the Yahoo bots crawl around the board when I notice some amusing things.
The Yahoo bots attempt to access the download threads. Since they are not logged in, they can't get to them, of course. That's a good thing since otherwise they would be blowing megabytes of bandwidth on each crawl. That's a really strong reason for all sites to require logins and go the extra mile to block bots from creating accounts.
Another bit of amusement was someone from an irresolvable IP address (65.54.154.48) that turned out to be in a Microsoft netblock. I suspect that's a general net portal for employees and a sims fan happened to be surfing the sites at 10:00 PM on a Tuesday night, but still, it's still fun to think that maybe there's a reason why the corporation itself would be interested in the game!
