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p.s. I realize I could clear up some of this by contacting the website administrator but, at this point, for various reasons, I still don't want to do so, although I may in the future.
I was with you up to here. If what you're doing is a fair and reasonable use of the system, you should have no qualms in getting guidelines from the owners. The fact that you're a bit squeamish here has me wonder if you're violating some terms-of-usage.

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by dannoura (Pilgrim) on Feb 21, 2004 at 12:18 UTC

    The fact that you're a bit squeamish here has me wonder if you're violating some terms-of-usage.

    Not really. It's just that this is for a research idea which could easily be copied (in fact I think the administrator should have thought of it himself), so I'd prefer it if what I was doing wasn't known until I have the results.

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      But you could still address the webmaster with a question like:
      If I write a spidering agent that hits your site, do you have any guidelines, such as time-of-day, rate-of-hits, or areas examined?
      If you were to write me with that, I'd be very happy to tell you.

      -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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