Re: [tlug] Blocking unknown and unclear bots

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:37:30 +0900, Curt Sampson
<cjs@example.com> wrote:

> > What do you do with bots that are forging their user-agent headers? ;-)
> 
> This is why you want to filter bots by desired behaviour, rather than
> "who" they are.

Or by IP address.

If you know that a certain IP allocation harbours nasty bots then just
block it regardless of what the user agent string is.

-- 
G. Stewart - gstewart@example.com

Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from 
bad judgment.

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