Lachesis

anyone heard of it?

[incywincy]

i ntoiced that today i have received a number of visits from a user agent bearing this name. i did a quick site search at WMW but couldn't find anything.

does anyone know of this user agent? should i exclude it?

thanks in advance.

[volatilegx]

What kind of behaviour is it exhibiting? Does it request robots.txt? Does it give referrer info?

Do you have the IP address?

[digitalghost]

I've seen all three of those bots and they seemed polite and requested the robots text. I'm searching now for the IP but I recall them originating from Berkeley.

>>Lachesis, "disposer of lots"; Clotho, "spinner," who continuously spins the thread from which we weave the web of destiny; and Atropos, "not turning," the inexorable, inflexible future result of past causes yet to be resolved.

Someone discerning the fate of your site? I'll find the IP in a log here soon.

DG

[digitalghost]

So much for my memory.

Lachesis a tool from Intel to monitor and report on response time and packet loss to "landmark" Internet sites. It is based on the publically available tool Imeter

You can grab it at ftp.intel.com

DG

[lawman]

"laches" (not lachesis) is a legal term. In a civil action it essentially says that if you wait so long to pursue a cause of action, the cause of action is barred by laches even if no legal statute of limitations is imposed. Below is one Georgia statute regarding laches:

23-1-25 Laches.

Equity gives no relief to one whose long delay renders the ascertainment of the truth difficult, even when no legal limitation bars the right.

HERE'S [lectlaw.com] another definition.

lawman