Re: [Az-Geocaching] Shout out to Snaptek

Interesting. I'm glad it's working out that way then.

Brian
Team A.I.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Cluff" <brian@Snaptek.com>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Shout out to Snaptek


> Brian Casteel wrote:
> > A solution would be that those who want the stats updated contribute to
an
> > account that could get a series of 5 PQs daily to keep at least part of
the
> > stats system operational/correct. Otherwise, the IP azgc.com runs on,
may
> > very well be permanently banned if updates continue.
>
> I believe that gc.com actually likes what we are doing... and or they
> consider us grandfathered in. Either way, they have been very nice in
> letting us continue to scrape their site on a daily basis.
> We only had to write some speed throttling code into the crawler so that
> it wouldn't activate their auto blocker... We've been told as long as we
> don't exceed an certain rate that we should be fine.
>
> Brian Cluff
> Team Snaptek
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