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JAB Creations

9:39 am on Dec 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

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What do you folks think about these UA's with email addresses?

booch_1.0.7_tankvit@e-mail.ru
Mozilla/4.0_(compatible)_Nemo/0.2;_mailto:kohlschuetter@l3s.de

My initial reaction, spammers trying to get those hard to reach webmasters behind their contact forms...

The booch did access my robots.txt file oddly enough but the ip resolved to ... well here is the ip... 70.84.20.52.

Anyone else see any of these mysterious UA's?

wilderness

6:30 am on Dec 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Foruantely the examples you provided all come from RIPE and as a result of very little traffic getting in my sites from those IP's, I'm unqualified to give an answer.

Were it a North American IP range doing such a thing, rather than providing a link to their bot page and/or website, thereby not providing an explantion as to what the bot intends on doing with the pages and images they are gathering?

I add them to my 403's.

If the person who initaites a bot, believes it's my "obligation" to contact him when he invades my website/household than the bot has no reason at my site and is in violation of my TOS/UAG.

JAB Creations

5:11 pm on Dec 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Hell yah! Thats the justification I needed! 403! 403! :-D

fiestagirl

10:25 pm on Dec 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I equate that kind of stuff to entering a bank with a ski mask on. Even without a weapon, you're probably up to something...and I don't wait to find out what.

JAB Creations

12:17 am on Dec 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I equate that kind of stuff to entering a bank with a ski mask on. Even without a weapon, you're probably up to something...and I don't wait to find out what.

IoI ... I bet with a little effort one of us could get put on comedy central with all the stuff we end up talking about. :-D