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>Some of the URLs this clown accessed started long CPU intensive
>processes that involved multiple machines in xxx's e-print archive
>system.
I suspect that your scenario is bogus, and indeed some people have
already contested it in subsequent postings.
But let us assume for now that this was indeed the case.
>There are limited resources for this system and they were
>being wasted by this clown's irresponsible actions.
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Your argument is not very persuasive.
Those resources would be equally wasted if I sat in front of my browser
and requested those same documents myself, once every
two minutes. It would take me only a couple of hours to do this.
Would that make me irresponsible? Am I supposed to understand all
the side effects of my requests on your site before I start accessing
your pages? Or maybe it would be a more reasonable model for
a publicly available document base such as the WWW, (where
it is common for example for people to select a random link
and request it) that it should be the administrator's
responsibility to insure that no unreasonable side effects occur,
no matter what pages I request?
--Steve Simon