Just banned a Sweden-based search engine from the site for too many redundant page loads. Over a three day period this dumbass robot ate up almost 1/18th of all the processor time spent building pages. Google's search engine did the same job over the same period for about 4% as much time (nearly twice as much time as that spent by an actual live visitor who checks frequently and reads a lot but still, not bad).

Several sites are now using the RSS feeds provided by BC to summarize what's new here for their own visitors and provide links to the stories. That's kind of cool. it's like free advertising for the site and a nice perk for their own members. :)

- Erin