Re: bad bot behavior

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From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject	Re: bad bot behavior
Date	Sun, 23 Mar 2025 14:30:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Ian <${send-direct-email-to-news1021-at-jusme-dot-com-if-you-must}@jusme.com> wrote at 12:06 this Wednesday (GMT):
> On 2025-03-18, Toaster <toaster@dne3.net> wrote:
>>
>> But what can be done to mitigate this issue? Crawlers and bots ruin the
>> internet.
>
> #mode=evil
>
> How about a script that spews out an endless stream of junk from
> /usr/share/dict/words, parked on a random URL that's listed in
> robots.txt as forbidden. Any bot choosing to chew on that gets what
> it deserves, though you might need to bandwidth limit it.


I heard Cloudflare is doing something like that, but ironically
with their own generative AI..
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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