On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Always Learning <cen...@u62.u22.net> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > The alternative is to be a willing victim.
>
>> It's more a question of why you run the service at all. If blocking
>> people from reaching it doesn't bother you, why not just shut it down?
>
> Blocking people ? Data Centre bots that download all or parts of my web
> sites for someone's personal amusement or for commercial gain of their
> customers or simply to find email addresses to use for spamming, are not
> the 'people' I want to attract.
You said you were blocking IPs. The IPs you see don't represent
people or even specific devices and you have no way of knowing the
correspondence.
> Why should I tolerate some malicious nutter trying to hack into my web
> servers ? Better to block their IP after the first attempt.
Why tolerate anyone?
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Les Mikesell
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