Thank you for providing such valuable feedback. The Alexa crawl (id amzn_assoc) has ceased while we investigate the statements made in this post. We plan to address the following concerns:
1. The impact the crawler may have on bandwidth 2. The number of pages the crawler hits per second 3. How the Alexa crawler might identify and ignore AWS pages or links
Points of clarification:
1. Regarding Archive.org, Alexa has confirmed that material that is crawled by the 'amzn_assoc' crawler is not donated to the internet archive. It is used exclusively for the purposes of the Broken Link Reports.
2. The Alexa crawler 'amzn_assoc' differs from the 'ia_archiver' crawler. The 'ia_archiver' can be excluded by using a robots.txt file and will not violate the Amazon.com Associates operating agreement.
You should expect a response from us by COB Friday as it may take a few days to research your concerns. This issue is important to us and we will get it resolved. Thank you for your patience.
The Amazon.com Associates Program"
I participated in that conversation myself though and I don't think I seen one happy person that though making the agreement so we had to let them crawl our sites as often as they like.
cj.com report error links but they do it from the server end, amazons system is just stupid and it was only done to try and give there alexa company some work todo.
so I guess its just wait and see now till we know if the bot starts back up again.
so not only will I have to look out making sure I don't stand on jelly fish at the beach I will have to make sure I don't stand on this stuff as well, could get a nasty splinter.
100,000 americans compain to disney for there version of spirit away for being to white, we wanted the red version they said, disney denied that there was anything wrong.
I often go to the local snooker/pool hall to play with my mates and get drunk:) this could be evan better if they allow us to drink and play games, they woudl have to have a good selection of games to play though.
this is pretty good, I get a few complaints about the jokes n my site they are not bad just normal jokes but some people complain there kids might have access to them, now I can just say shut up your kids should only be on the kids domain, you lousy parents.
chekov: captain geeks off the starboard bow sulu: sir, they locked on to us with there slashdotter weapon Kirk: damage report spock: your server appears to be slashdotted captain. kirk: scotty, more power to the server scotty: I'm giving it all its got captain kirk: can you do anything bones bones: kirk, I'm a doctor not a server admin
I know some people who would consider paying to have there sites filtered so chinese people can't get to them because they get a lot of fraud attempts from them, also alot of content sites don't make a dime from chinese visitors and I know people who allready complain at the amount of bandwidth chinese users take up with no compensation.
Joe what incentives do we have for making our sites more accessible to disabled users, When you yourself can't evan make your site work properly for the netscape 4 impaired.
from your site "Netscape 4 chokes on many components of my sites; that's Netscape's fault."
Maybe I could say my site is disabled accessable just its there browsers fault for not working properly.
Slashdot Mirror
http://forums.prosperotechnologies.com/n/mb/messag e.asp?webtag=am-associhelp&msg=2579.1&maxT=3">http ://forums.prosperotechnologies.com/n/mb/message.as p?webtag=am-associhelp&msg=2579.1&maxT=3
ok that is a post from the associates board
in which amazon state
"Hello Associates.
Thank you for providing such valuable feedback. The Alexa crawl (id amzn_assoc) has ceased while we investigate the statements made in this post. We plan to address the following concerns:
1. The impact the crawler may have on bandwidth
2. The number of pages the crawler hits per second
3. How the Alexa crawler might identify and ignore AWS pages or links
Points of clarification:
1. Regarding Archive.org, Alexa has confirmed that material that is crawled by the 'amzn_assoc' crawler is not donated to the internet archive. It is used exclusively for the purposes of the Broken Link Reports.
2. The Alexa crawler 'amzn_assoc' differs from the 'ia_archiver' crawler. The 'ia_archiver' can be excluded by using a robots.txt file and will not violate the Amazon.com Associates operating agreement.
You should expect a response from us by COB Friday as it may take a few days to research your concerns. This issue is important to us and we will get it resolved. Thank you for your patience.
The Amazon.com Associates Program"
I participated in that conversation myself though and I don't think I seen one happy person that though making the agreement so we had to let them crawl our sites as often as they like.
cj.com report error links but they do it from the server end, amazons system is just stupid and it was only done to try and give there alexa company some work todo.
so I guess its just wait and see now till we know if the bot starts back up again.
fucked company internal memo here was it so hard to provide a link to it?
so not only will I have to look out making sure I don't stand on jelly fish at the beach I will have to make sure I don't stand on this stuff as well, could get a nasty splinter.
When they have found a way to channel the heat into keeping my cup of coffee warm while I'm reading then i'll be intrested.
BBC version
:).
a little nicer one the eyes in my opinion and has a picture too
That planet used to be white, disney most own the photos.
100,000 americans compain to disney for there version of spirit away for being to white, we wanted the red version they said, disney denied that there was anything wrong.
I often go to the local snooker/pool hall to play with my mates and get drunk :) this could be evan better if they allow us to drink and play games, they woudl have to have a good selection of games to play though.
The majority of people who would buy a $199 machine woudl have no idea how to run anything without windows on it.
I would guess that nearly all of these machines will have a copy of windows on them within a month of purchase.
this is pretty good, I get a few complaints about the jokes n my site they are not bad just normal jokes but some people complain there kids might have access to them, now I can just say shut up your kids should only be on the kids domain, you lousy parents.
chekov: captain geeks off the starboard bow
sulu: sir, they locked on to us with there slashdotter weapon
Kirk: damage report
spock: your server appears to be slashdotted captain.
kirk: scotty, more power to the server
scotty: I'm giving it all its got captain
kirk: can you do anything bones
bones: kirk, I'm a doctor not a server admin
I know some people who would consider paying to have there sites filtered so chinese people can't get to
them because they get a lot of fraud attempts from them, also alot of content sites don't make a dime from chinese visitors and I know people who allready complain at the amount of bandwidth chinese users take up with no compensation.
This thing could be a big money maker for them.
Joe what incentives do we have for making our sites more accessible to disabled users, When you yourself can't evan make your site work properly for the netscape 4 impaired.
from your site "Netscape 4 chokes on many components of my sites; that's Netscape's fault."
Maybe I could say my site is disabled accessable just its there browsers fault for not working properly.