[Soekris] List is quiet

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <48B0B2CD.3090702 at gmx.de>, Johannes Bauer writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp schrieb:
>
>> Some @(*#$ idiot decided to write his own scraper and generated to
>> many errors that the log partition ran full.
>> 
>> I hope everything is humming again now.
>
>I don't get it. As English is not my mother tounge, I even ran "scraper" 
>through a dictionary. Among the exactly 50 translations of which it can 
>mean in German (http://www.dict.cc/?s=scraper) there is not a single one 
>which would even remotely make sense. Would you mind explain what 
>happened there?

Appearantly somebody wanted a private copy of the mailing-list archives
and wrote a perl script to pick it out through the web-interface.

In practice he couldn't code, so about 9 out of ten requests were in
error.

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