[thelist] automation on members only sites

Alexander Beston alex at deltatraffic.co.uk
Mon Apr 25 10:18:36 CDT 2005


Hi all

Im running a members only site with a mail facility to contact other 
members.

over the weekend some kind of automated browser has searched for 
members, send them a mail and repeated indefinately.

the pattern of accesses in the logs are too regular to be anything other 
than machine driven.

most worryingly of all, each member has a db table showing who & when a 
members details were viewed, but here nothing is recorded for any member 
shown as viewed in the logs.

are these programs readily available? how do you block them? has anyone 
any experience of this sort of thing?

thanks,
Alex





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