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Dealing with bots

DJ Chase u9000 at posteo.mx

Thu Oct 28 12:18:11 BST 2021

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On Thu, 2021-10-28 at 04:51 +0500, Anna “CyberTailor” wrote:

I've stumbled upon a clever way to stop bots from accessing dynamic
content and infinite loops: a simple captcha!
gemini://topotun.hldns.ru/cgi-bin/lock.cgi
< 10 Protection against bots. What is 2+2?> (translated ru-en)

So the bots will index gemini://capsule.example/locked-content?4

I think the better way to handle bots stuck in an infinite loop is toban them _temporarily_, or ban them just from the recursive links.

-- DJ ChaseThey, Them, Theirs