[Az-Geocaching] Suggestion for statistics

[Jason Poulter]

we dont crawl any of those and still got whacked!!!

jason


Team Cache-Quest wrote:

>Most "crawlers" will obey a site's ROBOTS.TXT file.
>
>GEOCACHING.COM's ROBOTS.TXT disallows almost all crawling.  Here is a
>copy...
>
>User-agent: *
># Disallow all unnecessary content from the search
>Disallow: /iis/*
>Disallow: /login/*
>Disallow: /admin/*
>Disallow: /map/*
>Disallow: /email/*
>Disallow: /my/*
>Disallow: /seek/nearest.asp*
>Disallow: /seek/nearest_cache.asp*
>Disallow: /seek/waypoint.asp*
>Disallow: /bait.asp
>
>Because of what Snaptek needs for azgeocaching.com, they have to ignore the
>robots.txt file.  Unfortunately most web sites are smart enough now days to
>recognize unauthorized crawling and will automatically prevent it.  Some
>consider it a form of hacking because of what it does to the server.
>
>You can't really blame geocaching.com.  They probably have many folks trying
>to crawl the site and because of international interest there really isn't a
>good time to do it.  What they really need is a decent interface to allow
>folks to get bulk information.  The query generator was a step in the right
>direction, but it falls short.  I'd like to simply get a list of all the
>caches I've found in XML format to do with what I want, but the Query
>Generator can't even do that.
>
>Jerry (Cache-Quest)
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Regan L Smith" <buggers@mindspring.com>
>To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
>Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 11:38 AM
>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Suggestion for statistics
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>>There has to be other "crawlers" out there how are they dealing with it
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>and
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>>is there anything that we the beneficiaries of your fantastic work do???
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Regan L Smith" <buggers@mindspring.com>
>>To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
>>Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 10:42 AM
>>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Suggestion for statistics
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>>>do they consider AZGeocaching a threat? I don't understand you guys make
>>>their stuff much easier to use, and understand.
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