You'd have to ask Shadow1, I'm not privvy to the inner workings of the bot, but ever since that limit was put in place the bot's been repeatedly stalling.
Peter M Dodge aka Wizardry Dragon
Wikipedia Editor, CheckUser Clerk,
en.wikipedia.org
On 3/1/07, Peter M Dodge <twicescorned@gmail.com> wrote:
> The connection limit is really killing Shadow1's Shadowbot that is an
> essential spamfighting tool on the English wikipedia. Is there no better
> way we can limit traffic? Can it not be throttled to a certain throughput,
> for example?
Why does a bot need many simultaneous connections?
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