Seems like anyone who was thoughtful enough to read this list would not be
writing robots with behavior patterns such as the one Betsy noticed. Thus,
point 2 below (in her message) is probably preaching to the converted.
The purpose of robots-gripe would most likely be to attempt to reach
robot writers and ask/tell them to be more considerate with their robots.
Since these developers would probably not read robots-gripe (because if they
did, they wouldn't have written such an ill-behaved robot), I don't see how
the intended audience is reached. robots-gripe would surely become a place
where debates of the "rights" of robots took place, and flames were sent by
various webmasters about what they were going to do to counteract ill-behaved
robots. This has its place (and it might be nice to put that place on another
list), but it is not interesting to me.
Issac
> Rob (and others reading this post),
>
> Uh.. no flames... hope you got your coffee :-). I apologize for
> the posting. I saw others do similarly and I guess I wanted to see
> two things occur:
>
> 1. Try to identify the offender
> 2. Impress upon robot writers that they should really be
> considerate of others
>
> I've seen the flame-fest about antisocial webmasters and actually
> had a good laugh about it. Until that is I found my site to be the
> happy testing ground for some robot writers. I wouldn't mind too
> much except they pull all the controls out during testing and tend
> to have a large number of simultaneous connections during the
> busiest time of day for my web site. This could easily be construed
> as denial of service....
>
> I'd love to have a robot-gripes email list or at least some
> tracking forum where people can go to determine who these offenders
> are and have an email address where one can query as to their
> activities. Accountability is all I ask for....
>
> -betsy
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