Hmm, which one? If true, it is definitely unrelated to AltaVista.
--Louis
>----------
>From: Scott 'Webster' Wood[SMTP:swood@thewild.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 1996 7:56 AM
>To: robots@webcrawler.com
>Subject: On the subject of abuse/pro-activeness
>
>Just out of curiousity, I chewed apart my server logs to see what kind
>of
>accesses I have received from various robots on the net. Basically, I
>searched for requests from the specific domains I know to be search
>locations and narrowed the list as best I could. (if anyone is surfing
>from these sites, the numbers ARE reflected in my totals)
>
>I stripped out those entries that were less than 100 requests (yahoo
>and lycos were just under 100) and ended up with the following for
>the past 6 months. At two points in time, requests were made to
>all four of these and others that were <100 (including lycos and yahoo)
>to index certain portions of my site.
>
>I have also since found out that there is another company doing some
>collecting for digital, and thus the altavista numbers may not be
>complete.
>(really!) These totals do not count situations where individuals are
>using
>the 'named' search programs on their site, as these totals are from the
>actually addresses where the requests are made from. Anyone know if
>these
>companies' software uses the company's site to handle customer
>requests?
>
>
> altavista 707
> magellan 538
> excite 242
> infoseek 153
>
>Totals reflect mid February to the end of June, takes into account all
>httpd
>requests, and is from a log of 242068 requests.
>
>Scott
>