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yeah, that was a thing, and its spam and such like it, is a bigger problem for witness and rpc node memory and disk waste than the bots are.

is a bigger problem for witness and rpc node memory and disk waste

tell me about it :( My block log is now more than 200G (yours too, I believe) and it's growing day by day.

Yep, times 2 with the backup.