Re: Unfriendly robot at 205.252.60.50
Nick Arnett (narnett@Verity.COM)
Sun, 22 Oct 1995 13:13:12 -0700
At 5:46 PM 10/21/95, Kim Davies wrote:
>Hi,
>
>> >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.
>>
>> I haven't heard from them, but our server/spider product manager received a
>> telephone apology.
>
>Has someone invited them to join this list? If they discussed what they
>were doing it might be better for all concerned..
I directed them to the robots pages on www.webcrawler.com, which should
lead them to this list.
What am I thinking -- the server that they were hammering with their robot
includes recent messages from this list (at
http://asearch.mccmedia.com/robots/). I suppose that means they might have
looked...
Nick