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  • Re: "Red" And The DoD Language Competition

    From Randy Brukardt@randy@rrsoftware.com to comp.lang.ada on Fri Nov 1 22:48:38 2024
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    "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in message news:vc3di3$1bmhk$3@dont-email.me...
    On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 01:27:22 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:
    ...
    You're confused. The attackers aren't using Wget, but they are
    *claiming* to be WGet.

    But that long list of user agents being blocked that you previously
    mentioned did not include wget.

    I don't block WGet myself, I haven't seen enough abuse. There's more from
    Meta and Amazon, and I probably shouldn't block them, either. (Meta and
    Amazon both have crawlers that ignore requests for throttling, I know some webmasters block them for that reason.)

    But I'm sure that other webmasters have different experiences. I don't find
    it surprising when anything is blocked anymore (although blocking Firefox seems a bit much).

    Randy.


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