Re: Stats spike
Jon Lewis <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.org.operators.internet-access |
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, JC Dill wrote: > They (apparently) mirrored the whole site. They didn't grab the images, just > the html. Since this is a site full of photos, that makes it pretty weird. That and the user agent shifting are both pretty weird. Were there any duplicate requests from different user agents? As someone else mentioned, it sounds like it could be someone testing an email harvesting spider. > If this was an attempt to spider the site to scarf email addresses, they > gained - at most - one email address. And it cost them nothing but some time...and your client a bunch of bandwidth. > Is there any value in complaining to abuse@videotron or is that just sending > the complaint into a black hole? Probably no value there...but if you don't complain, they can't do anything for you. If I were you, I'd ask them for forward your query to their customer since they're unlikely to give you any customer info. If they were up to no good, you can expect not to hear from them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ -- Eat sushi frequently. - Avi [email protected] is the human contact address. [email protected] is the list posting address. See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list