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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: "Red" And The DoD Language Competition
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2024 22:48:38 -0500
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"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in message 
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> On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 01:27:22 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:
...
>> You're confused. The attackers aren't using Wget, but they are
>> *claiming* to be WGet.
>
> But that long list of user agents being blocked that you previously
> mentioned did not include wget.

I don't block WGet myself, I haven't seen enough abuse. There's more from 
Meta and Amazon, and I probably shouldn't block them, either. (Meta and 
Amazon both have crawlers that ignore requests for throttling, I know some 
webmasters block them for that reason.)

But I'm sure that other webmasters have different experiences. I don't find 
it surprising when anything is blocked anymore (although blocking Firefox 
seems a bit much).

                    Randy.