Re: How to stop site flipping?
| From: | Jason Morehouse | Date: | Tue, 14 May 2002 02:18:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How to stop site flipping? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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A good start is: http://www.neilgunton.com/spambot_trap/
Though it has some specific details for mod_perl, much of the information
can be tied to php.
On Mon, 13 May 2002, David McInnis wrote:
> I have been running a newswire service since 97 and recently noticed an
> increase in the number of people flipping our site to harvest email
> addresses contained in the news releases posted on our site. (prweb.com)
>
> I am running apache and php on a linux box. Can anyone suggest
> something that I can implement that would block users who are harvesting
> data from our site? I do not mind legit users from using this data, but
> the flippers are chewing up my bandwidth and db resources.
>
> I also want to be careful to not block valid search engine spiders from
> indexing our site.
>
> David McInnis
>
>
>
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Jason Morehouse
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Netconcepts LTD
Auckland, New Zealand
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