Yes, I was joking. It probably was irresponible to post it.
One of my co-workers has a page that gets hit about once a minute, 24
hours a day. I was briefly considering asking him to put that URL into
a <img src ..> tag on his page. Now that really would have been an unnice
thing to do, but it also would have destroyed it's utility as a
"wrath trigger" for the admin over there. I doubt he has the resources to
launch his attacks against a new site every 60 seconds!
Anyway, it is my intention to play nice. I really did filter xxx.lanl.gov
out of my test set, and explicity catch it in my URL pre-validator so I
won't bother him in the future.
In case I didn't mention it on the list, all of my future experiments, robot
or not, will obey the exclusion standard.
-a