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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:21:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>
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Subject: Re: Braindead spider from 198.4.83.49
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On Thu, 24 May 2001, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:

> Does anyone know who is behind the IP of 198.4.83.49? I cannot
> ping it. I cannot browse to it.
> 
> But it appears in my web logs, and, from a Google search, in
> apparently everyone's web logs. Namely, it spiders the web all
> the time. It uses a spider named "WFARC". Now, all other spiders

My guess would be it is a crawler associated with:

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/k53/clever.html


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