On 05/05/15 01:58, lev wrote:
Question: What's the story behind wget's "--random-wait" Option.
According to the man page
"…A 2001 article in a publication devoted to development on
a popular consumer platform provided code to perform this analysis on
the fly.
Its author suggested blocking at the class C address level to ensure
automated
retrieval programs were blocked despite changing DHCP-supplied
addresses."
I am very interested in the story behind this, but I can't find any
information
on this topic in the changelog file, through search engines, etc.
Thank you very much in advance for your time and efforts!
Lev
That's an interesting history-digging question!
(yes, this mailing list address is the appropiate place)
The commit that added it (2c41d783c) says:
Submitted by Alan Eldridge in
<[email protected]>.
Due to the time, I thought it would have been on either *[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>* or
*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>* (the old
mailing lists) for which http://wget.addictivecode.org/MailingLists list
a couple of mirrors.
However, gmane archives begin on 2002-04-25 and 2005-03-15 respectively.
I also looked on sunsite.dk (not dotsrc.org) news server, but although
there's a sunsite.wget group, they don't contain archives (seems they
follow the usual usenet expiry rules).
Probably Hrvoje or one of the old users still have those archives from
*15 years ago*.
If that fails, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> may still have
the mailing lists archived somewhere.
PS: I think I may have read years ago the 2001 article refered in the
documentation (or a similar one), but I have no idea on which url it was
or how I got it.
