ozzie

[wilderness]

I seem to recall there's an old thread on this.
I have other ranges of this provider denied and added this recent Class B range.

208.96.54.zz - - [13/Aug/2007:18:22:37 -0500] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 4550 "-" "ozzie (question [e-mail])"

[keyplyr]

He showed up last week just requesting robots and index page. I then denied the UA in robots.txt but didn't have the time to check out the origin. I mistakenly assumed it was a student in the CS dept at stanford.edu doing a project.

Came back today, ignoring robots and grabbing what it could before I denied the (same) IP range. I should know better.

[wilderness]

keplyr,
It's a shame that I should be required to 403 anything that has the name Stanford in it, considering the widgets of my websites ;)

Stanford University was a former widget farm and part of the huge former estate of Leland Stanford. I recall the acreage to be around 11,000 however my recollection frequently plays tricks on me in these matters.

Some good reading on Stanford is the 1890 book by Charles Marvin on Palo Alto which will eventaully make its way online in the Making of America archives. Mr. Marvin provides some extensive insight into the properties of Leland Stanford.

Don