Re: mod_spambot, reports from the trenches?

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:00:13 +0000, Ignoramus8409 wrote:

> I would like to make sure that rogue bots that pound my sites with
> incessant requests, are blocked, while at the same time, important and
> well behaved bots such as googlebot are never blocked from accessing
> my site.
>
> Once in a while I get hit with bots such as teleport pro and
> "WebDownload", which I already have blocked, but I do not want to be
> hit by some other bot.
>
> I heard of mod_spambot and am concerned that it may block legitimate
> crawlers.

Legitimate crawlers, such as Google, can be whitelisted.

> Any thoughts on actually using mod_spambot?