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brotherhood of LAN

4:28 pm on Sep 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

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[cis.poly.edu...]

Anyone been getting crawled by this chap? (Sorry, can't get hold of IP's from awkwardly big logs)

After reading their site as to why they are spidering, seems they are a baby Google. They can spider three quarters of a billion page in the time it takes google to update its index.

More info on it here [cis.poly.edu]

What's the opinions on robots like this. Get in the index "just in case" or ban it?

volatilegx

4:34 pm on Sep 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Unless the spider is misbehaving, I wouldn't ban it. They appear to be gathering web pages for scholarly research purposes.

martin

11:14 pm on Sep 12, 2002 (gmt 0)

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8 and 9 sep, IP: 128.238.55.7
robots.txt and root only both times.

It doesn't look like misbehaving to me.