Re: hoohoo.cac.washington = bad

Betsy Dunphy (betsy@aesir.com)
Mon, 29 Jul 96 10:36:57 -0400


>Who runs hoohoo.cac.washington.edu? It is pulling a page every 3
>seconds from my server.

Ahhh.... when I first saw the message, it didn't register. Then
this morning I suddenly remembered where I'd see that before. Could
this be the infamous MetaCrawler? This little beastie attacked my
site last week and had about 75 simultaneous connections. Forget the
3 seconds between requests, it was grabbing as fast as we could
give.

This is worse than a student project - this is a 'service' being
provided to the world as a better way to search.

-betsy
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