Several days ago I began to notice a large amount of HTTP traffic from 147.27.1.194 (hydralix.softnet.tuc.gr), which is a part of the SoftNet Lab at the University of Crete in Greece.

After some digging, I realized that the server was either proxying or flat-out duplicating (both, perhaps) my entire site. Either way, visiting that address would get you an exact copy of dennis.ca. That’s twice in the last few months that this has happened — the last time was from a site in Japan.

Do all the research you like, but stop hammering the bandwidth on my server. Perhaps the Technical University of Crete, its Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, and the SoftNet Lab (Software Systems and Network Applications Laboratory) could use a lesson in etiquette.

Probably not, though, so I’ll just let Google handle things by picking through and indexing the links on this page along with this entry.