I think that's a great idea! @:-) Let's hope the vBulletin package let's them do that.

The idea being, of course, that permanently restricting the bots from accessing a portion of the available ports improves board performance for most members. For example, say FT has 100 ports. That is, 100 people can access it at a time without impacting performance. If more than that number is trying to access the board, performance slows down. What I think Randy's post indicates is that there are bots which are "hammering" all available ports, slowing down board performance every time they are accessing the board. Well, if you restricted the number of ports available to bots to 50, then it wouldn't matter (as much) when bots were accessing the board. Also, it helps FT to have these search engines directing web surfers here.