Re: [Bug-wget] history of --random-wait

[Ángel González]

On 05/05/15 01:58, lev wrote:
> Question: What's the story behind wget's "--random-wait" Option.
>
> According to the man page
>
> "…A 2001 article in a publication devoted to development on
> a popular consumer platform provided code to perform this analysis on 
> the fly.
> Its author suggested blocking at the class C address level to ensure 
> automated
> retrieval programs were blocked despite changing DHCP-supplied 
> addresses."
>
> I am very interested in the story behind this, but I can't find any 
> information
>  on this topic in the changelog file, through search engines, etc.
>
> Thank you very much in advance for your time and efforts!
>
> Lev

That's an interesting history-digging question!
  (yes, this mailing list address is the appropiate place)

The commit that added it (2c41d783c) says:
Submitted by Alan Eldridge in
<address@hidden>.

Due to the time, I thought it would have been on either address@hidden 
<mailto:address@hidden>* or

address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>* (the old 
mailing lists) for which http://wget.addictivecode.org/MailingLists list 
a couple of mirrors.

However, gmane archives begin on 2002-04-25 and 2005-03-15 respectively.

I also looked on sunsite.dk (not dotsrc.org) news server, but although 
there's a sunsite.wget group, they don't contain archives (seems they 
follow the usual usenet expiry rules).

Probably Hrvoje or one of the old users still have those archives from 
*15 years ago*.
If that fails, address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden> may still have 
the mailing lists archived somewhere.


PS: I think I may have read years ago the 2001 article refered in the 
documentation (or a similar one), but I have no idea on which url it was 
or how I got it.