Re: hoohoo.cac.washington = bad
Jeremy.Ellman (jeremy@kronos)
Mon, 29 Jul 1996 17:40:31 +0100
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> >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.
>
I doubt that this is MetaCrawler. MetaCrawler posts queries to multiple
search engines in parallel. If you're not running a general search engine I
don't see why it should bother you.
As I remember, the owners *do* contact people running search engines before
adding them to the search lists.
Jeremy