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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 1996 15:15:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Linux Netscape 2.0b6a? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960130151440.18634C-100000@ki.net>
In-Reply-To: <199601302000.EAA06557@jhome.DIALix.COM>

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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?

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