Well I guess if the botnet was poorly configured and only netting a few Ghash it really wasn't worth having around if all it was really doing was gumming up the system.  I was thinking it was in the 10s - 100s of Ghash and netting us blocks like crazy.  So had it been asking for a proper amount of work, and completing it appropriately, would this thread even exist or would we be carrying on business as usual?