Re: "Red" And The DoD Language Competition

[Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 13 Sep 2024, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote
(in article <vbvpta$esm6$8@dont-email.me>):

> On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 23:57:33 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> > "Lawrence D'Oliveiro"<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in message
> > news:vbimad$1j26j$6@dont-email.me...
> > >
> > > Don't you wonder why people insist on returning "403
> > > Forbidden" for those using a command-line tool like wget?
> >
> > Most SEO tools and other
> > useless/criminal scrapers like to fake their identification, and WGet is
> > a favorite for that task. There are many owners that block that and many
> > other abused user-agents.
>
> That doesn´t make any sense, because anybody who knows how to use wget
> would know about its "--user-agent" option. So if they really were using
> wget to conduct their site abuse, you wouldn´t know, and blocking wget´s
> default user-agent setting wouldn´t help.

Wrong.
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Bill Findlay