The longer it takes, the more it costs them. Similar notion for spamming... if a spammer has to wait to find an open relay and write extra logic to see if it's found an open relay, then it makes their life harder.
Yes, but outside of so-called "First World" countries, transfer costs money. We've had some South American users mention very high rates for traffic, so they'd like to kick people of as soon as possible. The same may be true of Bulgaria.
For the short term, an effective way to do what they want is to use the same approach used to block abusive spiders. You add their IP address to a list of rules, and reload the list. It would take about 20 minutes to code the thing from start to finish.
Sure, bandwidth cost is the most compeling reason. Meanwhile, I wrote up the reasons http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?NoFastFail
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