Mirroring and stage and tmp dirs

[Brian Dessent]

Robert Pendell wrote:

> retrieved via Wget from this one ip address.  It also went through the
> stage, mail-archives, and tmp folders.  Alot of the directory listings
> had "?N=D", "?M=A", "?S=A", "?D=A" appended to them.  What are these for?

That happens when a spider blindly mirrors a site.  Go look on the
generated index.html pages.  You'll find that you can click on the
column headings to change the sort order.  Those url parameters control
that.

Brian