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In <5f1cq9$67r@melb.werple.net.au> eccles@werple.net.au (Jon Etkins) writes:
>David Higgins <dave.usenet@tripleg.com.au> writes:
>
>>Has anyone heard if micro$oft are planning a search engine.  Though this
>>wouldn't explain the ingoring of robot.txt and the taking of images.
>>Although the stupidity of micro$oft and it's complete inability to understand
>>the 'net would explain these.
>
>Perhaps I'm being a little simplistic, but has anybody bothered to *gasp* 
>ASK MICROSOFT?

We saw a series of port 80 probes to all of our DNS registered addresses
coming from a variety of machines (tide<nn>.microsoft.com) over a couple
of days.  I did shoot off a message to postmaster@microsoft.com but, as yet,
have received no reply.

The curious thing from our point of view is that we don't have any a publicly
available web server, yet.  I'd guess they (the dreaded M$) are actually
scanning the DNS.

Something to consider adding to your respective Security and Internet Usage
policies are points like ...

	Any site about which an employee provides a written complaint
	shall be denied ALL connectivity to <our> services/hosts.
	Any web-crawler site which does not comply with the "robots.txt
	standard" shall be denied HTTP connectivity to <our> services/hosts.

If you make these points clear in your communiques with other post- or web-
masters, you may get better results.

Ciao.

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