Originally Posted by azguy

You're right, a SE must take into consideration the target server's load, etc. and use common sense and "SE spidering ethics". In this case, you should seek to stop this from happening or work with them to improve their efforts. That would save both sides a lot of time. After all, they are trying to send traffic to GFY (in the case of STBoards) and have no problem having people read the full thread here.