Weirdness from University of Chicago Campus

So I'm looking through my stats (as I often do), and I came across several referrers from The Des Moines Register. Intrigued, I of course went to the Gannett site and looked around. No links. Well, maybe it's off the homepage already. A link from a story maybe? Not finding anything, I grep'd the raw logs to get more info.

Seems for some reason somebody using a University of Chicago computer is hitting Muncie Free Press and faking the Des Moines site in the referrer field. They're using "WWW-Mechanize/0.72", which is a PERL CPAN module.

Interesting.

Prolly someone just playing around. They've hit the site once a day for several. Maybe just testing to see if I notice them on my radar?

In any case, hope everyone's long weekend is going well.

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