Why don't you block their IP's and email them that you'll gladly accept a $100 donation monthly for a monthly CD. :)
----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net ------------ On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, John Young wrote: > We had an e-mail exchange today with the FBI about > a bot coming to Cryptome daily to grab new files and > to check on old ones. We complained about the bot > taking over the site during its visit. The FBI explained > that the visits are part of a "web cache mirroring process:" > > http://cryptome.org/fbi-web-mirror.htm > > We would appreciate hearing of other sites being mirrored > by the FBI. The IP address range of the MAS program: > > 65.207.53.xxx > > We have no objection to the FBI mirroring or by anybody else, > but misconfigured bots have been an annoyance for repeatedly > downloading old files, racking up tens of thousands error logs. > One today produced over 16MB of log files before we got the > user to wake up. Misconfigured WGet, as often, was the culprit.