Poirot

[GaryK]

User Agent:
Poirot

IP Address:
70.85.116.*

Referrer:
[jaja-jak-globusy.com...]

URL returns a blank page. No markup at all. IP Address is owned by ThePlanet. No robots.txt. Made second request using LWP::Simple/5.803.

[edited by: volatilegx at 8:07 pm (utc) on Nov. 6, 2005]
[edit reason] obscured IP address [/edit]

[keyplyr]

Gary, jaja-jak-globusy.com has been mentioned here in the forums and IMO is a scrapper directory that uses site listings with rich KW descriptions to dynamically create Adsence pages.

I've concluded to tolerate these types since it's too much effort to maintain a ban list on them all, but I block this UA (Poirot) on the principal that it does not request robots.txt nor supply adequate contact or other info.

As a side note, I block LWP::Simple since it is often a tool of abuse.

[GaryK]

Thank you. I have a real dilemma with things like LWP::Simple as well. I know a lot of people want to use it and others to download files I offer on my main site. So I allow it there, but not on my other sites. I'm going to ban Poirot though.