Bots don't honor 301 :(

[Thomas Charron]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Larry Cook <lcook at sybase.com> wrote:
>> They would just come back or go bother someone else.
> #ifdef CURMUDGEON
>  They'll do that anyway.
>  This is not a effective deterrent.  It's the security equivalent of
> masturbation.  It may make you feel good, but that's all it's doing.
>  If you really want to do something effective, lookup the owner of
> the IP block and contact their abuse desk, and/or report the source IP
> address to one of the various network abuse reporting systems.
>  But hey, if you're just looking to feel good, by all means,
> continue.  Who am I to tell you to stop having fun?
> #endif

  I remember what I considered one of the most effective efforts to
shut down spammers, by simply taking away the cost insentive to use
the service.  Unfortunatly, it was considered a counter attack, and
hence shut down..

  Anyone recall the name of it?  It compiled URLs which spammers where
pointing to, and basically had *everyone* on the network start pulling
down those web pages.

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-- Thomas