• blogsearchbot-pumpkin-2 visited our sites for the first time. I'm not exactly sure what pumpkins have to do with blog searching, but this bot obviously connects them both.   related...
• A particularly aggressive bot also visited us by the name of Charlotte/1.0b. In fact, this one is chomping on our site at this very moment at the rate of 1 page per 8 seconds, and has crawled 15,816 pages on our site in 3 days. This guy's hungry, but according to his site (www.betaspider.com), it obeys robots.txt if you want it all to go away. We're willing to take one for the team and let this bot crawl our site uninhibited by robots.txt. We do this so that we can observe and document all bot activities in the wild, without regards to robots.txt.   related...
• In security news, page_verifier http://www.securecomputing.com/goto/pv scanned through our site looking for malicious software to report. They were kind enough to include a URL in the User Agent text for the bot, which explains more about the bot's purpose, and they also claim to follow the robots.txt exclusion standard.   related...
• A new version of Exabot/3.0 showed up.   related...
• A slightly altered DoCoMo/2.0 bot visited our site, displaying a very strange versioning pattern. They are on version 2.0, but the user agent string contains "P902i(c100;TB;W24H12)", which only varies slightly from another version we've seen, "P902i(c100;TB;W24H11)". This may not be a version number, but it seems to increment like one.   related...
• This just looks shady: crawler root@localhost. Something tells me that root@localhost is not an email address...   related...
• lwp-trivial/1.41 found our site and loooked around for a bit.   related...
• HTMLParser/1.6 also found us and poked around. We've seen them before, but the vesrion is slightly modified this time.   related...
• Sadly, we did not get a new findlinks bot version this week. Development must have finally come to a hault on their bot, as we are used to seeing at least one new version every week. As consolation, here is a link to their greatest hits.

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