Janet
We have had this problem yes - you can get spidering software easily enough on the web and if someone tries to "spider" whole chunks of a book it will close down. There is not a great deal we can do about this as we can track it back to an individual machine - but cannot prove who was using it at the time.
Bill Downey
Subject Team Leader (Technology)
Library
Kingston University
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Sent: Wed 13/10/2004 11:03
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Subject: Safari account blocks
At Oxford Brookes University we've been having problems with our Safari
account being blocked because of excessive use. Safari advise that this
is being caused by some users using 'spidering software' and trying to
download whole books.
Have any other libraries had this problem and if so, how have they
overcome it?
Many thanks in advance
Janet Frost
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