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Simon Lloyd · #**262** 12-29-2011, 01:18 PM

Well i suppose the secondd of those two links has more explanation but i didn't get that from your post, i thought you wanted links to lists posting, but for my money that can be a bad thing, people would then blindly enter all the bots to the banning list when really, dependant on their content, they will want some of those scraping or visiting their site, it's a personal preference really.

I built this because the bots were killing my bandwidth and making the forum slow so i ban the more agressive ones like Baidu, why on earth would they need 215 bots indexing my site?, so ban them in favour for the less aggressive

Anyway as an information post this link explains what they are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spambot

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