we combat this with one thing 1. our main marketing part of our site, intended for *everyone*, has nothing that you cant get from a phone call, spoofing a human :) 2. anything that we want just our *clients* to see we password protect.
our closest competitor changes their website just after we do, on a regular schedule, its comical. we are the chicken, they want to be the egg! tony weeg uncertified advanced cold fusion developer tony at navtrak dot net www.navtrak.net 410.548.2337 -----Original Message----- From: John Paul Ashenfelter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 1:54 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Block Competitors from Web site Regards, John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/TransitionPoint ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 1:18 PM Subject: Re: Block Competitors from Web site > On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 12:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > I know the user could just log in fromo their home connection to > > open a TS session outside of their company. I want to make sure > > they are blocked from > > the company. > > This is very interesting. I've never actually heard of anyone doing > something like this before. I don't know about IIS, but I do know > that Apache will let you block requests in a variety of ways, > including IP address and/or domain names, so I believe you could > fairly effective stop certain people from visiting your site. Or you could get crazy with a geomind subscription that can look up company names by IP address, or any number of other schemes However I really don't > understand why you would want to do something like this. Since you > already know that they can view the content from home, spoof their IP > address, or set up tunneling from another IP address, you won't be > able to put anything on your site that you don't want them to see, so > what have you really gained? Don't forget googling/etc. You'll can of course block the googlebot, but then you've blocked the one of the most popular internet search engines there is. Yeah, I've got to agree. This is an all-around bad idea. Things that are public are public. Things that are private are private. The physical version of the digital sabotage you're trying to implement is to run over to the corporate headquarters of your competitors and tear out all of the ads for your company from the magazines in the office so they can't see your advertisements. And then going to the local library. Etc. On the other hand, it's not hard to implement blocking of the digital content -- or better yet, feeding them different content -- but the return on the time investment, not to mention the efficacy of the blocking, will likely be worth little to the business. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Host with the leader in ColdFusion hosting. Voted #1 ColdFusion host by CF Developers. Offering shared and dedicated hosting options. www.cfxhosting.com/default.cfm?redirect=10481 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
