Re: [tlug] Blocking unknown and unclear bots

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Curt Sampson writes:

 > I don't understand. So if a "good" bot and a "bad" bot swop IP
 > addresses, you start blocking the (presumably ex-) "good" bot, and now
 > allow the (presumably ex-) "bad" bot?

Yup.  I have a couple of correspondents with addresses in the
163.com domain. :-)  And of course there's always the potential issue
with new ISPs that their IP block used to harbor spammers, and once it
was blacklisted enough, the spammers sold it on.