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 01/03/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com> wrote:
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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