New WaSP member Mark Pilgrim continues to (correctly, IMHO) take issue with NewsMonster, a new RSS aggregator. I’ve seen similar behaviour to this for several months–since November 27, in fact–from a user-agent purporting to be Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.15; Mac_PowerPC). It seems unlikely that this is an incarnation of Burton’s software–if it is, why’s he looking at my site, of all things–which leads me to believe that there’s something else out there. (The other thing is that at least half of these requests are coming from doorstop.webtv.net–i.e. WebTV Networks, i.e. Microsoft–which is kind of unlikely to be a Mac house.) The user-agent string isn’t listed in the über-user-agent list Mark cites, but I’ve seen other interactive requests from the agent so I’m presuming it’s just something spoofing the agent.
So, whatever you are–to continue what’s turning into today’s theme–Yer outta there!
