Your Crawler has been hitting my site, http://www.firstclown.us, every two minutes for it's RSS feed. I have had to block your IP address, 66.151.189.7, in order for your crawler to stop harassing me. Now, I type faster than most but I still don't update my site every 2 minutes at midnight on a Thursday. Here is a small sample of the chaos you have brought:

66.151.189.7 - - [09/Dec/2004:23:51:19 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [09/Dec/2004:23:53:09 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [09/Dec/2004:23:55:41 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [09/Dec/2004:23:59:01 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:00:00:59 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:00:03:19 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:00:09:19 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:00:14:07 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:00:17:53 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:00:19:59 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."

...

66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:05:30:49 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:05:32:25 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:05:33:57 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:05:35:57 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:05:39:10 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:05:40:17 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:05:42:00 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:05:44:40 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:05:45:56 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:05:48:16 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:05:50:16 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:05:51:32 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:05:53:15 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:05:54:50 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:05:59:02 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:06:00:37 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:06:02:21 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:06:03:34 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1502 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:07:03:54 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 200 1921 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:07:04:02 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1921 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:14:33:30 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1921 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."
66.151.189.7 - - [10/Dec/2004:14:33:30 -0800] "GET /wp-rss2.php HTTP/1.1" 304 1921 "-" "Feedster Crawler/1.0; Feedster, Inc."

As you can see this is well out of control. Luckily I haven't seen hide nor hair of you since I blocked the IP. You will not be allowed back into the clubhouse until you learn to behave like a civilized gentleman.

When I sent this to them, I got this error:

Warning: mysql_get_host_info(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/feedster.net/htdocs/z/v2db.php on line 556

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /tmp/z_templates_st_v2_ph_en_htm.php:1) in /home/feedster.net/htdocs/z/v2db.php on line 794
http://www.feedster.com/rss.php Feedster powered RSS feed. en-us Feedster (support@feedster.com) Feedster (support@feedster.com) Sat, 11 Dec 2004 11:18:30 EST Sat, 11 Dec 2004 11:18:30 EST http://www.feedster.com/ We're sorry but Feedster is temporarily offline. We apologize for this and a systems administration has been alerted. http://www.feedster.com/ http://www.feedster.com/ Sat, 11 Dec 2004 11:18:30 EST

Oh well. Are monkeys programming their site?

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