[Az-Geocaching] Suggestion for statistics

[Andrew Ayre]

I think it is amusing that several days ago I suggested a petition and got
precisely two supportive responses. Now the stats are broken everyone is up
in arms. Unfortunately I was healthy several days ago, but now I am in a lot
of pain and in and out of the hospital - I can't sit down and concentrate
for any length of time to write out a well considered and toughtful petition
text. So, if someone else wishes to do this go ahead. Good luck.

www.petitiononline.com

Andy


-----Original Message-----
From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com
[mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com]On Behalf Of Jason
Poulter
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 2:39 PM
To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Suggestion for statistics


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
>
>
>
>
>>There has to be other "crawlers" out there how are they dealing with it
>>
>>
>and
>
>
>>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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