[Az-Geocaching] Suggestion for statistics

[Jason Poulter]

except your ip would be blocked within a day.... i changed the ip over 
to another one and it was blocked also within a day... and that was with 
me only scanning new caches....

jason


bcasteel@cox.net wrote:

>That's a good idea, in theory.  However, not every cacher can write code like the Snaptek guys, nor can everyone understand how to run a script of this nature.  If they gave me the code, I'd gladly throw it up on my server to run, and all would be happy.  :)
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>Brian
>Team A.I.
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>>From: Bob Renner <renner001@yahoo.com>
>>Date: 2003/09/04 Thu PM 05:34:29 EDT
>>To: Arizona Geocaching List <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
>>Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Suggestion for statistics
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>>Jason,
>>
>>I realize this would be a total rewrite of your
>>statistics gathering software, but it might be a way
>>to lessen the load it puts on the geocaching.com
>>website.  Instead of crawling the entire data base, go
>>to the individual profile pages of Arizona geocachers,
>>and get the information from the "User Stats" pages. 
>>Anyone who wants to have their information included
>>into the AZgeocaching web page, would have to tell you
>>to include them in your list.  You could still include
>>the logs of others on the caches within Arizona.
>>
>>Another, approach would be for you to provide the code
>>for Arizona geocachers to run on their own computers
>>to get their basic information from geocaching.com and
>>then automatically forward this to you to be compiled
>>into one database.  The advantage of this would be
>>that the load on geocaching.com would be from multiple
>>IP addresses and only when a user knows his/her stats
>>need to be updated (i.e. when they have found or
>>placed a new cache).
>>
>>Just a thought that might help get around any blocking
>>you are experiencing.
>>
>>Bob Renner
>>
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