Xyleme, Inria, Cosmos and Sqworm

They are related

[volatilegx]

I've had hits reported by these various spiders and in the past I had thought them to be a research project by Inria.fr, which is French in origin.

However, in browsing Xyleme's website, I came across a reference to a new search engine they intend to launch in cooperation with Inria.fr's Verso Group.

Xyleme's goal appears to be to build an extensive repository of information gathered from XML documents (and HTML documents also, I assume) and make the information accessable without the use of URLs. This sounds like blatant copyright infringement to me.

I intend to add the IPs to my "ban" list. I'll add more IPs here as I come across them.

# Inria.fr
# UA "Sqworm/2.9.72-BETA (beta_release; 20010821-737; i686-pc-linux-gnu)"
# a French research institute
63.212.171.171

# Xyleme.com
# UA "cosmos/0.8)_([e-mail])"
212.73.246.71
212.73.246.73

[Great1]

I've seen the Cosmos spider around recently as well. I didn't really take much notice of him because I get so many different spiders on my site.

[wilderness]

I had previously banned both Xyleme.com and Cosmos and their related IP's.

Was just visited by Sqworm.

My first inclination was to ban the entire block of 63.208. - 63.215.
I have a short fuse with these spiders these days and settled on 63.212.
Have taken to banning anything which which uses the smart tag technology or even any other manners which I condsider ill.

I've also had a recent visit by:
212.187.213.71 Scooter-ARS-1.1-ih

and a FRAMED referal from www.espoting.com

These things tend to come in batches.

[Great1]

mmmm, I've now seen all 3 of these. They can go bye bye.

Has anyone seen a spider called "Jack". I can't find anything about it.

[wilderness]

I blocked "Jack" about a month ago.
A search at google resulted in two many hits.

I believe it to be some type of browser from the UK.
Funny you should mention it :-)
Had a Jack NON visitor today ;-)

[Son_House]

Jack is from a UK se. [domanova.co.uk...]

[Great1]

Thanks guys and gals