Re: Unfriendly robot at 205.252.60.50

Andrew Leonard (aleonard@well.com)
Sat, 21 Oct 1995 07:17:03 -0700 (PDT)


I contacted NlightN, and their CEO said that their most junior hire was
testing a new robot. They were apparently unaware of the robot exclusion
protocol but plan to mend their ways.

Andrew Leonard
Wired Magazine

On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Nick Arnett wrote:

> At 7:53 AM 10/19/95, Reinier Post wrote:
> >>The correct address of the owner of the robot is 205.252.60.50, which won't
> >>resolve. Tight security, apparently. Ironically.
> >
> >Well, on our site (www.win.tue.nl), it's causing no problems at all
>
> In my e-mail to NlightN, I said that I assume it was unintentional. I
> can't imagine that anyone would purposely request documents at the rate
> they were hitting us. Of course, there's no way to know if that was the
> robot or a human-controlled browser hitting your site from the same host...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Nick
>
>
>