Originally Posted by ozzy47 (Post 2528011)

Yes, I know Simon, I thought about doing it that way also, but the payoff, is not worth the trouble. It would bloat the mod, and become a resource hog in no time. :)

Originally Posted by ozzy47 (Post 2528013)

Exactly, which is why I only made it a count of total blocked, it's quick to write, and quick to read and display the count.

I used the analogy, KISS, keep it simple stupid. :)

Originally Posted by ozzy47 (Post 2528015)

I call myself stupid all the time, when I am writing code. :p

Originally Posted by ozzy47 (Post 2528007)

Say what? This is already recording the blocked bots. In four different possible ways, in a log file, in a thread, in a email and the bots blocked count.

Now writing each bot individually to the DB, is not a good idea, as the table would grow too big, and be a giant PITA when you query it to get the info. Think about it, in just five days, only blocking baidu, I have a count of 9062.

Now lets take that and round it to 10,000 for seven days. Lets say I am going to block the 281 bots I have in my list. 281 x 10,000 x 52 = 146,120,000 entries a year. :eek:

Sure each bot is not going to hit me 10,000 times a week, but you can see, this can really grow fast. ;)

And my site is not that busy, now imaginge on a busy site, the entries to the table in the DB could be 250,000,000 plus a year. Now run a query to retrieve the info from that table, and it would hurt the site every time it is ran. :mad:

IMO, the best way to go is how it is now, just increase the count every time a bot is blocked, and get that number and display it. :)

Originally Posted by too_cool_3 (Post 2528080)

I have one question regarding Ban Spiders by User Agent. Since many of the User Agent's in the lists contain words like 'bot', 'spider' and 'crawl', will enabling the option Ban Spiders in List ban even good spiders from the forum???

e.g.
Google Spider (crawl-66-249-75-154.googlebot.com)
BingBot Spider (msnbot-157-55-39-186.search.msn.com)