RE: Anyone know who owns this one?

Martin.Soukup (martin.soukup@fulcrum.com)
Fri, 2 Aug 1996 17:38:36 -0400


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>From: Betsy Dunphy[SMTP:betsy@aesir.com]
>Sent: Thursday, August 01, 1996 7:01 PM
>To: robots@webcrawler.com
>Subject: Anyone know who owns this one?
>
>
>What would appear to be a robot just came through my site. To say
>it does not adhere to the Standards for Robot Exclusion is an
>understatement. Picked up files that are expressly forbade in
>/robots.txt - actually never picked up robots.txt. In a 7 minute
>period picked up 88 files. No User-Agent to identify it. All I have
>is this:
>
> 194.97.0.55
>
>As I write this, I find I'm not surprised at the 'antisocial'
>reactions of some Webmasters out there. If mine were not a
>commercial site, I'd be screaming alot more loudly at anyone who
>writes/runs robots such as I've just experienced.
>
>Anyone have any idea who or what this is?
>

you can find who this is through a small C function using
getHostByName();

hope that helps,
M/