On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 12:06:41PM -0600, gru...@mailfence.com wrote: > On Fri, 4 Dec 2020, Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 08:39:42AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > But I asked specifically how to enable it for one bot, and I've asked > > > that question several times, getting smoke and mirror answers you all > > > assume are helpfull, but which are useless to a new user installing the > > > now 7 years old and long out of date package that in effect has no "how > > > it works" docs. I asked 3 questions in a previous day or so timeline, > > > and no one has actually attempted to actually answer even one of them. > > > Here is one line from that log: and that I just blocked: > > > > > > coyote.coyote.den:80 192.99.6.226 - - > > > [04/Dec/2020:07:18:20 -0500] "GET > > > /gene/toolshed/c3/build/win32/prep/?C=S;O=D > > > HTTP/1.1" 200 673 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MJ12bot/v1.4.8; > > > http://mj12bot.com/)" > > > > Taken directly from the link. > > > > Bot Type Good crawler (always identifies itself) > > IP Range Distributed, Worldwide > > Obeys Robots.txt *Yes* > > Obeys Crawl Delay Yes > > Data served at Majestic.com > > > > I kindly suggest to all debian-user members to reflect on this, and to > > stop this pointless discussion. > > many times i have needed help and it takes a while for all the > suggestions to coalesce
In this particular case it's third Gene's attempt (counting this year only and only at d-u) to solve this "problem". Suffice to say that previous attempts have not coalesced anything, and this one will not too. > i kindly suggest that your opinion is pointless Wow, I must've hit a nerve there. But I'm not offended, so prove me wrong. What's *your* suggestion for solving this problem? Reco