Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q)

2020-12-06 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 12/6/20 8:26 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 06 December 2020 16:40:37 Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 06 Dec 2020 13:15:50 -0600 "Martin McCormick" wrote: I found our old dial-up modem in a box of odds and ends 2 years ago and wondered if it could read callerID tones sent afte

Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q)

2020-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 06 December 2020 16:40:37 Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 06 Dec 2020 13:15:50 -0600 > > "Martin McCormick" wrote: > > I found our old dial-up modem in a box of odds and ends 2 > > years ago and wondered if it could read callerID tones sent after > > the first ring. It can so I sta

Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q)

2020-12-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 06 Dec 2020 13:15:50 -0600 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > I found our old dial-up modem in a box of odds and ends 2 > years ago and wondered if it could read callerID tones sent after > the first ring. It can so I started on a perl program that > initializes the modem for callerID and

Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q)

2020-12-06 Thread David Christensen
On 12/6/20 11:15 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: It's nice to see that I am not the only sick puppy out there. At 69 years old, I still don't have much trouble with getting in touch with my inner 12-year-old when it comes to intrusive marketing which is so prevalent these days. I fo

Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q)

2020-12-06 Thread Martin McCormick
It's nice to see that I am not the only sick puppy out there. At 69 years old, I still don't have much trouble with getting in touch with my inner 12-year-old when it comes to intrusive marketing which is so prevalent these days. I found our old dial-up modem in a box of odds and

Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q)

2020-12-04 Thread tomas
On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 11:02:48AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > Sounds like a good idea, I'll have to think about it, feed the bots in > 256 byte pieces every 5 seconds to keep them from timing out, with 256 > bytes from rnd mixed in to make a dos packet? :) Just be sure the crc is > goo

Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q)

2020-12-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 04 December 2020 09:00:05 Nicolas George wrote: > hdv@gmail (12020-12-04): > > Let me offer you an alternative option. (Most) bots work by > > analysing the referrals on each page in your website. Right? So, why > > not add a link to a page that normal users will never visit (e.g. > > be