Notice to "Twiceler" crawler - Cuill.com

[Worker 11811]

Subject: Cease and Desist
From: worker-no11811spam-11811@the11811furden.com
Date: Mon, March 17, 2008 11:37 am
To: crawler@cuill.com
Priority: High
Read receipt: sent

This will serve as your legal notice to cease and desist all further
webcrawling and/or information gathering activities at
http://thefurden.com and all associated subdomains, URLs and IP address.
(68.178.172.67)

Your "Twiceler" robot has been disrupting the operation of our website for
several weeks. We have made three different requests via updates to our
"robots.txt" file to stop Twiceler from doing this. Even though you claim
your crawler reads our robots.txt file every 24-48 hours, compliance has
been spotty, at best.

Our last contact with you on Friday, March 14, 2008 stated that we would
contact you again if the situation did not improve within 48 hours. There
has been no change.

We can no longer tolerate such abuse.

Please block Twiceler from crawling any part of our website immediately.

We will be monitoring our server's log files for any activity from your
location. If we detect any activity, we will file abuse complaints with
Cogent Communications and XO Communications. If this action does not
produce results we will take further action as we believe necessary to
stop your activities.

We are sorry we have to take this action but we believe there is no other
solution.

Worker 11811
Administrator

http://thefurden.com

[Worker 11811]

Subject: Re: Cease and Desist
From: "James Akers" <crawler@cuill.com>
Date: Tue, March 18, 2008 4:34 am
To: worker-no11811spam-11811@the11811furden.com
Priority: Normal

Dear Woker11811,

Twiceler is the crawler that we are developing for our new search
engine. It is important to us that it obey robots.txt, and that it not
crawl sites that do not wish to be crawled.

Recently we have seen a number of crawlers masquerading as Twiceler, so
please check that the IP address of the crawler in question is one of ours.
You can see our IP addresses at http://cuill.com/twiceler/robot.html

I believe this is the first email I have received from you. I will
add 68.178.172.67 to our list of IPs to exclude
and I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you.


Sincerely,


James Akers
Operations Engineer
Cuill, Inc.