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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 > 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/