NPBot-1/2.0
This is a busy little beasty - 118 visits between 26.01.03 and 17.02.03. Some time between 5.20pm and 7.35pm it's User Agent String changed to: NPBot-1/2.0 (http://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html) which makes traking down more info a bit easier.
status : not blocked
First noticed : 2003-01-26
earliest IP address : 12.148.209.196
Notes below added : Mar 14, 2003
NPBot-1/2.0 (http://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html) has been back and crawled through most of my sites. It spreads its requests out a bit, and generrally behaves itself, so I'm going to add it to my approved list to stop having to delete hundreds of alert emails.