Ah, but "why is it done" and "does it cause any harm" are two different questions.  I can't think of a good reason as to why.  Perhaps it is something related to how the IETF is a non-profit org and there is a perceived requirement to make sure its resources are not being overly abused.


Peter

On May 20, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Wilfred Drew wrote:
> 
> Why? What possible value would there be in doing this? Just curious.
> 
> Bill Drew
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Murray
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> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] exposing website visitor IP addresses to webcrawlers
> 
> Interesting question.  I don't see the harm in doing so.  It isn't the raw access logs, so one can't see what was accessed.  It isn't useful as an attack vector because there is a mixture of servers/crawlers and desktop IPs there; one might just as well attack the entire address space.
> 
> 
> Peter
> 
> On May 20, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Keith Jenkins wrote:
>> 
>> Just out of curiosity, does anyone on this list have any opinions
>> about whether website owners should publicly post lists of their
>> visitors' IP addresses (or hostnames) and to also allow such lists to
>> be indexable by search engines?
>> 
>> For example:
>>   https://www3.ietf.org/usagedata/site_201104.html
>> 
>> Keith


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