Len,
My heart skipped a beat when you explained it, it made sense (first
thing this week) and my web messaging runs on port 80. I didn't have grep
handy, so I did a quick search through notepad for "robots" - only two
showed up, right after midnight. My server crashed 3 times today, 7:30 am,
8am and 7:30 pm.
Although, of us having problems, are we all running web messaging on
port 80? Somewhere to start anyway....
Justin
----- Original Message -----
From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] robots.txt lines in log file
>
> >"/robots.txt" is a file that you can have on your web server (but
> >you likely do not) that instructs search engines as to what they can
> >and can not do on your site. It just means that a search engine (or
> >possibly something else -- such as someone harvesting E-mail
> >addresses) found you.
>
> But when the HTTP server is just Imail's .cgi which allows no access
> to a robots.txt file, how to tell these spiders to stop harassing
> Imail's web server, which is already prone to overloading with
> legitimate work? That's a good one, huh?
>
> hey, could that be why so many different versions of Imail have
> recently been having an epidemic of iwebmsg overloads?
>
> Maybe this is the "fall sweeps" season? vbg
>
> Iwebmsging getting spidered to death after months of total quiescence
> and no software changes??
>
> Hey, everybody with iwebmsging pb's:
>
> go search your Imail www log files for "robots".
>
> If you have grep around:
>
> grep <filename robots -ci
>
> ... to count how many log lines contain "robots".
>
> Repeat for the daily logs where you've had iwebmsg pb's.
>
> Ipswitch??
>
> Len
>
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