MSNBot is hammering my site!!

Here's a snippet from my log files...

18/08/2005 09:09:13 207.46.98.124 - msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) /feed092.asp
18/08/2005 09:05:58 207.46.98.124 - msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) /feed092.asp
18/08/2005 09:00:31 207.46.98.124 - msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) /feed092.asp
18/08/2005 08:55:25 207.46.98.124 - msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) /feed092.asp
18/08/2005 08:48:45 207.46.98.124 - msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) /feed092.asp
18/08/2005 08:43:16 207.46.98.124 - msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) /feed092.asp
...it goes on for days

According to my weblogs, the MSN Bot had been hammering my RSS news feed every 5 minutes for the past few days, this is very anti-social of them and an inefficient way check for updates as I ping the blogosphere whenever I update.

A domain lookup verifies that this IP address is msnbot.msn.com so this is no spoof.

Is it possible to issue an ASBO on them?

Could this be a strange tactic to draw attention to the hot topic of feed compression and get site owners to adopt feed compression to preserve their precious bandwidth?

No doubt they will quickly pickup this story, in approximately 5 minutes I reckon.
It could be a clever experiment to see who notices and stir up publicity, in which case, I've fallen for their trap!

Oi! msnBot! Cut it out!!