ObviousGuy's Journal: Cliff got me banned!

If anyone remembers this article posted by Cliff they will remember that it spent about half an hour with comments disabled after being posted. Brilliant, you know. An Ask Slashdot without the ability to post answers. It's like a Zen koan without any of the mysterious insight.

So I refreshed a couple times waiting for the comments to be enabled. In the meantime I also posted a little bit. Apparently the hits added up.

>From: Robert Rozeboom
>To: Obvious Guy
>Subject: Re: 219.176.70.115
>Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 10:10:37 -0400 (EDT)
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>This IP is banned for crawling us 2000 times in a day. It was banned on
>the 30th. So you either are running something or you share this IP with
>someone who is.
>
>On Thu, 1 May 2003, Obvious Guy wrote:
>
> > No scripts running here.
> >
> > Please unban.
> >
> > Thanks
> >

Still banned. Still not running scripts.

2000 times, huh? I'd hate to see what kinds of hits a script could rack up if normal usage leads to that many hits.