Re: swamp rat bots Q
On Friday 04 December 2020 13:16:23 Reco wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 12:06:41PM -0600, grumpy@mailfence.com wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Dec 2020, Reco wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 08:39:42AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > But I asked specifically how to enable it for one bot, and I've
> > > > asked that question several times, getting smoke and mirror
> > > > answers you all assume are helpfull, but which are useless to a
> > > > new user installing the now 7 years old and long out of date
> > > > package that in effect has no "how it works" docs. I asked 3
> > > > questions in a previous day or so timeline, and no one has
> > > > actually attempted to actually answer even one of them. Here is
> > > > one line from that log: and that I just blocked:
> > > >
> > > > coyote.coyote.den:80 192.99.6.226 - -
> > > > [04/Dec/2020:07:18:20 -0500] "GET
> > > > /gene/toolshed/c3/build/win32/prep/?C=S;O=D HTTP/1.1" 200 673
> > > > "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MJ12bot/v1.4.8;
> > > > http://mj12bot.com/)"
> > >
> > > Taken directly from the link.
> > >
> > > Bot Type Good crawler (always identifies itself)
> > > IP Range Distributed, Worldwide
> > > Obeys Robots.txt *Yes*
> > > Obeys Crawl Delay Yes
> > > Data served at Majestic.com
> > >
> > > I kindly suggest to all debian-user members to reflect on this,
> > > and to stop this pointless discussion.
> >
> > many times i have needed help and it takes a while for all the
> > suggestions to coalesce
>
> In this particular case it's third Gene's attempt (counting this year
> only and only at d-u) to solve this "problem".
> Suffice to say that previous attempts have not coalesced anything, and
> this one will not too.
>
> > i kindly suggest that your opinion is pointless
>
> Wow, I must've hit a nerve there.
> But I'm not offended, so prove me wrong.
>
> What's *your* suggestion for solving this problem?
>
> Reco
How about starting by answering the 3 questions I have posted instead of
calling this a square dance in round dance territory?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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