At 2025-11-10T22:29:08+0100, Pourko via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote: > Why is lists.gnu.org blocking me all of a sudden? > Did some genius put my IP on a blacklist or something?
Settle down, Beavis. If someone were taking punitive action against you, I expect they'd have blacklisted you from _posting_ to GNU mailing lists as well. lists.gnu.org routinely becomes unavailable these days--it was timing out for me for several hours this weekend--apparently due to a million AI startup companies setting their web crawling Hoovers to "full suck", which indeed makes life fully suck for natural intelligences wishing to access it. The problem has gotten worse this calendar year because all the principals of these firms have high confidence that they will never face prosecution in the U.S. for cybercrime under this administration, and in the event they do, they can cut a deal cheaply and easily, because nothing better exemplifies the power and genius of the Free Market[1][2] than paying the sovereign to conduct business.[3] The GNU admins take countermeasures. The Hoover bots adapt. Repeat. Regards, Branden [1] https://www.cato.org/policy-report/march/april-2013/james-m-buchanan-rip# [2] https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america [3] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/us/politics/trump-60-minutes-interview-binance-cz-pardon.html
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