Re: [tlug] Blocking unknown and unclear bots

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2010-02-23 12:30 +0900 (Tue), Darren Cook 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.

If a "good" bot and a "bad" bot have behaviour so similar that you can't
tell the difference between them, what makes one "good" and the other
"bad"?

cjs
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