On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Russell Sharpe wrote:
I would be curious who has actually tracked this traffic (themselves or via upstream ISP) and come up with a cost to their organisation? Are they invoicing natlib? if not.. why not?
If I were to do this sort of trolling.. personally, I would resolve addresses to ip's and sort out what is local NZ IP's and off shore and troll from the appropriate source... as much as I feel the ignorance of robots.txt is against the goodwill and security of the big bad world :\
If you were serious about trolling you would of course be looking at sections 250 (2) and 252 (1) of the Crimes Act [1] and trying to work out if certain people at the library are liable for imprisonment for a term "not exceeding 2 years" or "not exceeding 7 years". This email does not constitute legal advice :) [1] - http://www.legislation.govt.nz/ -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.