Re: nastygram from xxx.lanl.gov

Rob Hartill (robh@imdb.com)
Wed, 10 Jul 1996 19:54:58 -0600 (MDT)


Aaron Nabil wrote:

>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!

Go click on the URL and you'll learn that as well as being ignorant
you are also gullible.

If you surf around you'll also find the gem "click here to reformat your
hard disk". It's obviously a fake because the site doesn't serve Java.

>In case I didn't mention it on the list, all of my future experiments, robot
>or not, will obey the exclusion standard.

Oh joy. Remember the most important rule.. monitor your robot, it's
amazing how many well intentioned robots go crazy because of bugs.

rob

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