> > > zeynep and punk got 10s of multi-typed requests over multiple
     days,
     > > differs
     > > > from what happened just now, 1-3 requests with human-like
     response
     > >
     > >
     > >         no, it's the same thing. I got some 10 messages during a
     day or
     > > so. I said 'bot' but I think it's actually a person.
     > >
     >
     > we could collect them all, and their ips and timestamps,
             I stand corrected. I thought I got the messages during one
     day, because I found them all when I first checked my mail that day,
     but here are the timestamps
     Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:22:39 -0700
     Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:25:03 -0700
     Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:25:52 -0700
     Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:26:42 -0700
     Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:27:39 -0700
     Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:27:52 -0700
     Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:28:47 -0700
     Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:29:57 -0700
     Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:30:50 -0700
     Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:36:03 -0700
     Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:36:04 -0700
     Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:37:26 -0700
     Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:40:18 -0700
     Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:40:33 -0700
     Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:40:43 -0700
     Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:40:44 -0700
     Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 13:45:12 -0700
             So I got 17 messages during 20 minutes. Not sure it that was
     automated or not then...
     and then ask the
     > universe whether it would rather we profile the sender's hours of
     activity
     > from the timestamps, or wrap them with ribbons like a bouquet and
     present
     > them as a gesture of appreciation :)

   gnuplot
   A lone request, then about 1/minute except for #s 5-6 which are 13
   seconds apart, then occasional requests over the next few minutes.
   be helpful to compare with other data.
   Here are my scripts roughly. Usually you might make something in a
   full-blown language rather than this.
   # date lines in a file called "dates", converted to seconds and indices
   in "ts.dat"
   {
     start=$(date --date="Fri, 06 May 2022 13:22:00 -0700" +%s)
     index=0
     echo 0 0
     sed 's/Date: //' dates | while read date
     do
       echo $(($(date --date="$date" +%s)-start)) $index
       index=$((index+1))
     done
   } > ts.dat
   # gnuplot
   gnuplot> set term pngcairo
   gnuplot> set output "chart.png"
   gnuplot> plot "ts.dat" title "Request Index/Seconds" with steps
   I started with [1]https://github.com/guptarohit/asciigraph but it
   seemed the extra detail of gnuplot was worthwhile.

References

   1. https://github.com/guptarohit/asciigraph