Subject: anarky robot

From: Bob Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 94 15:29:32 EST

with respect to:

> Here is a part of our access_logfile, showing a robot comming from anarky every
> 7 hours. Would you be nice enough to ask the owner of the robot stoping
> it? Thx ;-)

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The following URL's are listed in the AstroWeb database:

url: { http://gin.obspm.fr/ }
longtitle: { D&amp;eacute;partement d'Astrophysique Extragalactique et de Cosmologie }
category: { dept }
shorttitle: { DAEC }
description: { The DAEC is the the D&amp;eacute;partement d'Astrophysique Extragalactique et de 
Cosmologie. It's in the Paris Meudon observatory, and is situated 
in Meudon near Paris, France. }

url: { http://gin.obspm.fr/~cappi }
longtitle: { CAPPI, Alberto }
category: { personal }
owner: { [email-masked] }
shorttitle: { Bologna Astronomical Observatory }

url: { http://gin.obspm.fr/~gam/ }
longtitle: { MAMON, Gary }
category: { personal }
owner: { [email-masked] }
shorttitle: { IAP }

url: { http://gin.obspm.fr/~morisset }
longtitle: { MORISSET, Christophe }
category: { personal }
owner: { [email-masked] }
shorttitle: { DAEC }

As part of the value-added services provided by AstroWeb, we verify
that each of the URL's is alive by a program which runs three times
a day.

There are three ways by which 'we' can eliminate this querying:

1. Remove these records from AstroWeb.
	Not a good idea

2. Set up the gin.obspm.fr server to reject connections from
anarky.stsci.edu.
	This will result in labeling those URL's as "Inactive?"

3. Change the program to ignore your site.
	I don't have time to do this at present.

I would like to know if this querying entails SERIOUS costs,
or is your request driven by aesthetic preferences.

If there are costs which I don't appreciate, I am open to
doing the third option much sooner.

			Bob