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[TerryRitchie]

From the way it looks to me, they're hitting every topic we have, so I'd guess someone is cloning the forums and using a bot that's grabbing 100 files at once, or some such.  I'm kinda surprised they've been at it as long as they have though.   Overall, their bandwidth is probably fairly low, so the download speed isn't that fast, even if they're hitting a couple of dozen topics at a time.

I wonder if entries in robots.txt could help alleviate this? I've noticed at times the forum being slow with so many unwarranted users on at a time. Heck, I think it was two days ago, I couldn't get the forum to load at all for about half an hour. I have no idea though if this was related to bots downloading pages like you're seeing or something at my end (although other pages loaded fine).