Persistent and nearly abusive

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Persistent and nearly abusive

agerhart

6:51 pm on Nov 27, 2001 (gmt 0)

This guy, sitecheck.internetseer.com, has been hitting our site like crazy........does anyone disallow the little guy?

FreeBee

7:44 pm on Nov 27, 2001 (gmt 0)

Andrew, we find it coming through about once an hour. There's a thread somewhere on the board - if I understand things correctly it's checking site uptime/downtime?

agerhart

7:49 pm on Nov 27, 2001 (gmt 0)

I know, I checked the site it is coming from. Very annoying.

Have you banned it?

FreeBee

8:09 pm on Nov 27, 2001 (gmt 0)

Nah, not too bothered by it...with Scooter doing more crawling than generating referrals I'm more fussed about that!

Will

10:24 am on Nov 28, 2001 (gmt 0)

The InternetSeer thing is by request as far as I know - looks like someone has signed you up for the service.

Woz

10:42 am on Nov 28, 2001 (gmt 0)

I find it very useful for checking uptime/downtime, but then others may not.

However, it is a condition of submitting to Claymont.com. More info in an earlier thread here [webmasterworld.com].

Onya
Woz

gethan

12:14 pm on Nov 28, 2001 (gmt 0)

Also on internetseer the request is for the head of the page only - so virtually no bandwidrh is consumed. So I let him continue to visit.

wilderness

12:22 am on Dec 9, 2001 (gmt 0)

InterSeer is fee based.
They are in business to generate revenue.
Even though they have "activate your free account" plastered on every page.

Read their privacy page.

Why would anybody allow an entity to generate revenue from your OWN web site unless your getting a piece of the pie?
ESPECIALLY if you (the webmaster) haven't requested their presence?

bird

5:15 pm on Dec 9, 2001 (gmt 0)

The InternetSeer thing is by request as far as I know - looks like someone has signed you up for the service.

That "someone" being their marketing department, which appearantly plans to spam every web site out there with unsoliticed status reports. Not the kind of company I like to do business with.

Crazy_Fool

11:38 pm on Dec 9, 2001 (gmt 0)

i've had several clients send me status report spam from internetseer asking me what they're all about and why they're getting them. the clients haven't signed up to anything at all. i don't need the grief from my clients so i've banned it.

KodeKrash

11:01 am on Dec 18, 2001 (gmt 0)

I have been getting emails and see a lot of traffic in my server logs for InternetSeer. And when it is watching all 300+ domains on my server farm, that is a lot of junk mail and wasted bandwidth.

I ask InternetSeer to cease and desist once a week, and will continue to do so until my other avenue's groundwork is laid - a lawyer.