Chatscan and real IRC users... (Score 1)

Did anyone over at enow.com ever think that this little chatscan thing would be annoying to real IRC users? I took notice to this thing quite a few months ago on Chatnet. I noticed the same kind of thing -- random nick, random uname -- coming from 3 different places. I assumed it was a bot because it never spoke and never responded to anything, and proceeded to ban it. Then it came back from other places, and at this time I thought it might be some kind of trojan that goes on IRC to tell its "l33t hax0r" where the trojan has been installed (like sub7). I banned those places as well. Within the past few weeks, dozens more have been entering and leaving, or entering and idling. All the join/parts and idlers are starting to get annoying... and this thing hasn't even caught on much yet. What about when and if this search engine (which I feel is useless unless people are interested in reading about me and my friends being bored all the time) becomes popular? Will we be dealing with constant join/parts and idlers from all sorts of places? It's hard to ban these things when they don't always come from the same place. Granted, many come from the enow.com site itself, but many more are from people's private connections. I've taken the liberty of making my channels +s, but I am not sure how long that will even hold out. And of course, making my help channels (#linux, etc) +s will tend to keep out real users needing help.