[lug] SPAM (was: email mystery)

[D. Stimits]

"D. Stimits" wrote:
> 
> Warren Sanders wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Deva Samartha wrote:
> >
> > > I had a robot coming in once, looking at one archive page, after 20
> > > minutes, coming back again, looking at the next archive page....
> > > it was a  crawler12.bos2.fast-search.net where I could not figure out who
> > > it is. I eventually blocked his access on the firewall. They kept trying
> > > for a long time.
> >
> > That's strange, I have been getting scans by this same exact robot!  It
> > ignores any robot.txt deny requests and has been scanning all pages, one
> > per minute, then comes back another time... starts over again.  My low
> > visit family photo site has this bot as the number one visitor in just two
> > visits.
> >
> > Good Idea ... think I will firewall this sucker too!
> >
> > --
> > Warren Sanders
> > http://MontanaLinux.Org
> >
> 
> Maybe a web server plugin needs to be written that redirects such
> requests by offering them a fake web page that contains all the email
> addresses of anti-spam groups. Let them mine addresses all they want.

Oops, looks like this is what the http://www.devin.com/sugarplum/ URL
was about. I spoke too soon.