From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 30 12:16:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA25414 for current-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 12:16:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [142.77.249.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA25405 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 12:16:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by ki.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA18847; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 15:15:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 15:15:31 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Peter Wemm cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Andreas Klemm , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Linux Netscape 2.0b6a? In-Reply-To: <199601302000.EAA06557@jhome.DIALix.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Peter Wemm wrote: > I wonder if it's time to resort to terrorising their web server by posting a > program to do a steady stream of fake http lookups and specify a > "X-UserAgent: X11 (I; FreeBSD-2.x; i386)" string in the lookup to try and > cause a "blip" on their usage stats. (yes, Netscape does count and record > a profile of their users) A few hundred sites with spare bandwidth doing > one reqest for "/" every 15 seconds might do it. > > Naturally, I'm joking, but it is tempting.. :-) > Everyone doing this once a day though...? How many of us are there? Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc