To get your web spider banned here, do as many of the the following aspossible:

• make a lot of requests, so that we notice you. 1,500 over two days,for example.

• make repeated rapid requests for the same unchanging pages, incase the sheer volume didn't get our attention. Over the same twodays, fetch something that hasn't changed since June 18th eighttimes and a bunch of other similar pages seven times each.

• to make sure we notice

Another problem of secrecy is that it robs people of the ability toobject.

When it's secret, you don't know that something is being done, and ifyou can see something happening you don't know why. Happenstance,coincidence, deliberate action? Who knows, and who can argue when youdon't know what to argue against or when. (In extreme cases, even whoto argue with.)

(I guess the problem of secrecy may nothave been entirely that, after

One of the recent discussion topics on Planet Debian has been version controlsystems, especially distributed VCS versus centralized VCSes like CVSand Subversion. (I have some opinions on this myself, so I read the entries with some interest.)

One of the points brought up for DVCSes, expressed for example here or the comments here , is thatwith a DVCS you don't have to start your serious involvement with aproject by begging for commit access (that you are unlikely to get,since you have no track record