On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 03:20:10PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Yes, Bugzilla has been slow lately. There's been a sudden surge in
> spammers trying to fill out the web forms, and also somehow feeding
> extremely heavy queries into MSN Live search, Googlebot and others.
> 
> I'm working on it, but please excuse the slowness in the meantime.
I think I have most of it solved, should take full effect after the big
bots reload their robots.txt in the next day or two.

If you run anything automated to access Bugzilla, you should read this
page:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/bots.html

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
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