Apparently bots are into everything, I find.....Forex trading, bargains on eBay....
"Auction website eBay has been to court in an attempt to suppress a third-party company from using bots to traverse their site looking for bargains; this approach backfired on eBay and attracted the attention of further bots."
I found that at Wikipedia, where many uses of these bots are listed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot
even "chat bots".......hmmmm, the mind boggles...... if one keyed in "female,nubile,38-24-36, not ageist" I wonder what the response would be?
I saw mention of its use in stuffing a ballot box....Kev2010? With so many applications we will never stamp the damn things out.