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Jon Broderick
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08/28/2000 9:22 pm
Somebody has been spidering guitar tricks so they can have a copy of all the tricks on their hard drive. Today this spider program caused a long outage. Guitar Tricks was down for several hours (it is still down as I write this) and our ISP threatened to boot us off.

Whoever is doing this, please STOP. If this doesn't stop, we may have to do a lot of unpleasant things, like charge a membership fee or close down the site. This is very serious.

If you want a copy of the tricks, email me and I will help you.

Jon

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josh_underwood
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08/28/2000 10:22 pm
Who The **** Is Doing this!!!!!!!!! STOP GOD DAMMIT. Like He Said E Mail Him And he Will Help You. Please STOP.

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OldSkoolPunk02
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08/29/2000 2:44 am
No site can't close... Must stay...
Is it just me or does life suck? Maybe I suck and it just life? We shall never know...
Up with dope! Down with hope!
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ekstasis16
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08/29/2000 4:29 am
A spider is a program designed to collect a group of information quickly at one time. This guy didn't want to go through each page and download them individually, so he made a program that grabs all the mp3's in a certain subdirectory at once. It overloads the server because it can't handle the activity. The ISP is pissed because their server is getting messed up.

[This message has been edited by ekstasis16 (edited 08-29-2000).]
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08/29/2000 4:50 am
Can you say , Panterawannabe ! LOL, just kidding.

Although, I wonder who really is doing this?
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Jon Broderick
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08/29/2000 4:59 am
ekstatis16 has it right. I doubt it is somebody who posts to the forum.

It could be a bootlegger or just somebody who wants his own copy.


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jake sommers
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08/29/2000 5:28 am
yo jonathan, are they trying to like make a comprehensive disk and bootleg it or something outta everybody's contributions.
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jake sommers
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08/29/2000 9:15 am
why would your isp threaten to cancel the site? and what is spidering?

[This message has been edited by jake sommers (edited 08-29-2000).]
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08/29/2000 5:09 pm
bas-*d...it'll suck if you've gotta charge a fee...A lot of us (well, me) aren't old enough to have a decent amount of money for that kinda stuff, or the typical means of payin' for it (cards, bank accounts...)
Grrrr!!!!....Stop!
Don't worry too much about me, ignore me long enough and I'll go away.
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OldSkoolPunk02
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08/29/2000 5:17 pm
Is that why this site went from 1600 tricks to 1000?
Is it just me or does life suck? Maybe I suck and it just life? We shall never know...
Up with dope! Down with hope!
A guitar is like a woman, touch her right, and she shall sing.
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jake sommers
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08/29/2000 5:36 pm
no, there all still there(i think). maybe Jon thought i didn't look good to have 1547. it's better to have a rounded number i guess.
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SJ
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08/29/2000 7:47 pm
ah, wondered why the site was broke..

didn't think anyone would rip a webby like this..
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08/30/2000 2:24 am
Isn't there any way you can prevent the spidering?

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Jon Broderick
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08/30/2000 2:37 am


I had to make changes to make this site more efficient. Those changes included removing the main trick counter. I had too many little counters and things running in a real ineffecient manner. In the next few months, I plan to rewrite Guitar Tricks and add a lot better categorization features and some other stuff that I think you will really like. When I do, I will try to add these features back in a more efficient manner.

I looked at our server logs, and it seems that the spider guy was just someone trying to download a copy for himself. I don't think he really meant any harm.


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08/30/2000 4:58 am
Is this still going on or has the spidering stopped?

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08/31/2000 6:20 pm
so far so good.
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09/01/2000 4:55 am
ok good
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