One increasingly common source of problems is the use of
browser
technology which attempts to pre-fetch pages for their user.
For example, a person who clicks on a table-of-contents, and
whose browser goes off and retrieves every article link on
the
page.
Sometimes people are unaware that their browser is
configured to
do this, other times people are aware and believe this is an
acceptable use case.
It causes a problem for web site maintainers, since you all
of a
sudden have 20-40 full-text content requests being made
(even if
90% of the requested content won't be looked at). To a
publisher
it might look like a badly behaved bot is spidering the
site.
Jim
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