Comments on: Please Ban Me! http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/09/04/please-ban-me/ Pietro Speroni di Fenizio's web log Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:06:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tim McCormack http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/09/04/please-ban-me/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Tim McCormack Fri, 05 Aug 2005 14:22:47 +0000 http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/09/04/please-ban-me/#comment-6 Ah, I'm glad someone else found this out the hard way, so I didn't have to. I found the PleaseBanMe when I ran del.icio.us through a validator (there's an unclosed div somewhere in there). I'm guessing that it's a mechanism to discourage raw spidering. The spider visits the link and <em>voila!</em>, it can't visit for a few minutes. Nice. Ah, I’m glad someone else found this out the hard way, so I didn’t have to. I found the PleaseBanMe when I ran del.icio.us through a validator (there’s an unclosed div somewhere in there).

I’m guessing that it’s a mechanism to discourage raw spidering. The spider visits the link and voila!, it can’t visit for a few minutes. Nice.

]]> By: Tim Hardy » Blog Archive » Please Ban Me http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/09/04/please-ban-me/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Tim Hardy » Blog Archive » Please Ban Me Thu, 12 May 2005 23:11:54 +0000 http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/09/04/please-ban-me/#comment-5 [...] in the status bar at the bottom of the window. A quick google later and I find that I am not the only one to spot this. Seems like it’s a Easter Egg of sorts. [...] [...] in the status bar at the bottom of the window. A quick google later and I find that I am not the only one to spot this. Seems like it’s a Easter Egg of sorts. [...]

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