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Microsoft spider hits skew browser stats
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reported via mail:

18/7/2011
Dear Mr. Zachte,

I think Microsoft and their browsers may be over represented in your statistics as Microsoft runs 'spiders' that identify themselves as whatever operating system and browser Microsoft is promoting. I see it on my server logs and you will probably see it on yours. Besides the unnatural browsing pattern they originate from Microsoft owned/controlled IP addresses making them quite identifiable.

Regards,

Richard A. Marschall, Ph.D.
Director, Engineering
Marschall Acoustics Instruments P/L

ram@hydrophones.com


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Severity: normal

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Dear Richard,

Could you please provide us with the ip-ranges that the Microsoft bots use?

Best,
Diederik

Richard is not CCed on this report, so an email would have to be sent.

Closing this ticket as I have not been able to contact the original bug reporter, I did email him personally.