From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 14:42:22 +0800
To: Stephan Somogyi <somogyi@digmedia.com>
Subject: Re: WhoWhere Robot strikes again
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WhoWhere.com and ParsecWeb.com are being firewalled from all but a few
networks at stanford.edu, ucr.edu, and other places. This is a step I
recommend to others. 

Unfortunately, I have more important things to worry about than fighting
off threats from some petty net-abusing scam, but I'd be glad to give the
reasons privately.

-rich

On Sat, 25 May 1996, Stephan Somogyi wrote:

> I now have a WhoWhere Robot hitting one of my web servers from
> orion.parsecweb.com and it is most assuredly not honoring the
> robots.txt file regarding directories to exclude. I also just looked in
> the bot registry again and the WhoWhere Robot remains unlisted.
> 
> Needless to say, I'm denying accesses from parsecweb.com from here onward.
> 
> Stephan
> 
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> Stephan Somogyi              Central Services              Digital Media