Atomic Energy Assoc. monitoring your site?

[dtupes]

Is anyone else seeing the www.iaea.org (International Atomic Energy Association) accessing all pages of their websites?

The first time I saw it in my log files, I thought some individual with too much time on their hands was surfing..

But "they" accessed all my pages, everyone of them.. and have done so on a regular basis all thru February.

Is this happening to everyone else? or anyone else?


I hope to hear from y'all bout this....


DT

[mattsiegman]

Someone who works there may just like your site...

[dtupes]

That would be great!! I wish he/she would take out there credit card and click away!!!



From the absence of other responses, I am assuming that this situation is not occuring to others here.

I did a search, via the msn search engine, on iaea, and oddly enough, a few other log pages from other websites were listed..
and they had been accessed as well.

this is very strange to me.

[mattsiegman]

Maybe they think you have paraphinalia on your site

[red-garlic]

I had also some visits of them - and maybe they are really interested in local history, about the Swiss National Exhibition BERN 1914...

[Vin DSL]

Originally posted by mattsiegman
Someone who works there may just like your site...

You might not realize it, but this is VERY prophetic. Example:

I was looking for a Julian Calendar online one day. Actually, the Julian Calendar 'we' use isn't a true Julian Calendar, but that's another story.

Anyway, I couldn't find one, so I made a Julian Calendar page on my site:

• http://lenon.com/julian1.htm

I made a little script for the top left corner of the page that shows today's date. I know the whole thing looks a little kludgy, but I did this all for myself. I figured nobody else would use it besides me, otherwise there would a 100 more Julian Calendar sites on the web. Well, I was wrong!

My little script wasn't Y2K compliant. On January 1, 2000, the year started coming up as 3900 . Before 2000, everything was 2-digit. So, (1900+99) became 1999. However, when the server clock ticked over to 2000, it became 4-digit, so (1900+2000) became 3900. I thought it was funny, so I left it that way.

Two days later, I get an email from the Purchasing Department for the State of Washington informing me the date in the corner was wrong, and asked if I would please fix it. I did, but what a funny deal, you know?

Anyway, I get 'thank you' mails from ppl, from time-to-time, telling me how much they appreciate the page - how they come over there each year to print it out for their office, et cetera.

You never know...

[mattsiegman]

LOL

Actually, the Julian Calendar 'we' use isn't a true Julian Calendar, but that's another story.

huh?

do tell...

[glo]

dtupes... I've had them access my site also. I assumed it was the new way to spam. They visit your site intensly and then you click back to see who they are, creating a hit for them. I've had other websites doing this as well. I may be way off here, but it was my first thought.

[Vin DSL]

Originally posted by mattsiegman
LOL


huh?

do tell...

Dude, you REALLY don't want to know! I've taken on the 'time lords' for years over this, but I'll give you a little taste of what I'm talking about, since you asked.

A Julian Calendar is a calendar based on a 365.25-day year, with a leap day added once ever 4 years. It's wildly inaccurate, but some ppl still use it. However, most of the world uses the Gregorian Calendar based on a 365.24219-day year. It is accurate to 1 day every 4000 years. Enough of that! If you want to read more:

• http://lenon.com/julian3.htm

What is more important to the financial and legal communities, as well as the computer world, is the Julian Date, which is a totally different animal. The first Julian Date was January 1, 4713 BC and it goes to the present. January 1, 4713 BC was day 1. As I type this post, we are now at sitting at day 2,452,704. Are you asleep yet?

Most ppl could care less about the true Julian Calendar or the true Julian Date. What they are interested in is how many days it is from say July 1st to August 31st, hence the need for a practical bastardization of both the Julian Calendar and the Julian Dating System.

This is where my 'Julian Calendar' page comes in. Let's say you bought a TV from Fry's Electronics today, March 6th, and you have 30 days to try it out. When is the last day you could take it back. Most ppl would guess April 6th. However, look it up on my Perpetual Julian Calendar page. March 6th is day 65 of this year. 65+30=95. What is day 95? Day 95=April 5th, not April 6th, as most ppl would have thought. Take your TV back to Fry's on April 6th and you're out of luck, you know?

Well, that's the short of it. I'm a heretic of sorts, to the ppl that study time, for publishing a quick 'n' dirty Julian Calendar on the web, but what's one to do? It works for me. Evidently it works for others too, sooo... screw 'em!

I'll quit now - didn't want to hijack this thread!

[dtupes]

Originally posted by glo
dtupes... I've had them access my site also. I assumed it was the new way to spam. They visit your site intensly and then you click back to see who they are, creating a hit for them. I've had other websites doing this as well. I may be way off here, but it was my first thought.

Hi GLO -

I did check there site when it originally happened .. and they are an official "state" site with some powers regarding Nuks and nuc. energy. There misssion page does state they are charged with some task re: nuc terrorism.


The few random log pages (of other sites) that come up on a search for IAEA all start just after or near 9/11.

I can beleive that "they" check out sites .. but my little reseller site? Well, it does have a Q in the name - and there is Al Queda(sp) .. but that is a stretch by any measure.

I guess stranger things happen though...

D

[dtupes]

I recevied a reply from the IAEA .. they say they are not the ones accessing the sites .. an email harvester is doing it and uses software to make the referrer look as though it is from the IAEA.

From the details of their reply, I believe them... and it makes sense..

DT

[glo]

dtupes, thanks for the info.