I'm wondering this myself. There may not be a direct legal violation of privacy here, especially if it's addressed in the Privacy Policy or Terms of Use as Sean noted, but I don't see the value of making this public. What am I missing? --- Katherine Lynch Library Webmaster Drexel University Libraries 215.895.1344 (p) 215.895.2070 (f) -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Wilfred Drew Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 10:50 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] exposing website visitor IP addresses to webcrawlers 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 Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 10:42 AM To: [log in to unmask] 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 -- Peter Murray [log in to unmask] tel:+1-678-235-2955 Ass't Director, Technology Services Development http://dltj.org/about/ Lyrasis -- Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers. The Disruptive Library Technology Jester http://dltj.org/ Attrib-Noncomm-Share http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/