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Easy has changed their UA to provide a better reference.
http ://keywen.com/Encyclopedia/Bot/
24.57.7.244 - - [24/Jan/2003:21:38:41 -0800] "GET /somefile.shtml HTTP/1.1" 200 18513 "-" "EasyDL/3.03 [keywen.com...]
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Seems they are part of the Cogeco Cable system ;)
They'd still be eating 403's if I hadn't decided to break up my htaccess into specific folders allowing entry into portions for many who were previously denied.
Seems they are part of the Cogeco Cable system ;)
Those damned Canuckleheads... All that snow & ice must be freezing their brains. :)
Actually they may have been around for you.
Hah, true...!
Actually, I've let him hang around more as a curiousity object & as a sign that I'm procrasinating...
The IP is indeed for a Cogeco home DSL account. The fellow responsible for the EasyDL bot doesn't live too far from me, and I've been meaning to give him a 3-in-the-morning phone call to ask him why he doesn't read robots.txt, but procrasination being what it is.....
(Well, he doesn't live that close, but close enough that a long distance call isn't painful.)
It's rare when I get to use the phone call tactic (or should that read, 'not often enough'?), but it usually works wonders on small-time spammers and folk like this. From what I've been able to gather, it's quite unnerving to have a complete stranger call you at home in the middle of the night, tell you where you live, sometimes even describe your house & family to you, and then politely point out that your Internet activities are disruptive to others and ask you to consider putting an end to it...
Not that I know, but I've heard that nailing a chuck of beef tongue to a can of SPAM along with a 'cease & desist' note and leaving it in a spammer's home mailbox, on top of their regular mail, can bring an end to email spam. Well, it might result in another spam full of profuse apologies & promises never to do it again, but.....
Don't get mad, get evil!
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