One IP number was at the top of the list of requests for pages in Awstats.

195.92.228.190
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Win32)

It has sucked down 15 megabytes on annelisabeth.com so far this month and 47 megabytes in February. First occurrence was February 4th.

It keeps sucking down the same posts over and over. I’m simply not willing to believe this is a human, even though it loads the css file and an occasional image. Not the background image loaded by the CSS, though.

I guess it resembles the subscription feature in IE a few years ago, where you could download a site for offline browsing, and you could set how often it should check for updated pages?

Kicking myself for not noticing this sooner, but in the .htaccess it goes.

Heh, I should footnote this with the fact that Googlebot has sucked down 24,5 megabyte so far this month, and is nowhere near being banned…

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