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Wait, isn't marginalia's crawler a bot? Also, what does any of this have to do with email spam? We're talking about HTTP(S) here, not SMTP, right?
by KirillPanov 4y ago
Wait, isn't marginalia's crawler a bot?
Also, what does any of this have to do with email spam? We're talking about HTTP(S) here, not SMTP, right?
- rzzzt 4y agoCloudflare and other providers add this in front of websites for DDOS protection purposes, and it is triggered based on different factors, one of which is location. I regularly get this on an Australian forum that discusses SOHO routers (and Javascript-based validation always fails so I have to solve a captcha instead).
- akavel 4y agoI imagine "spammer" here is not an email spammer, but either e.g. a comments spammer (a bot trying to post links in comment forms to game google), or a generalized thought shortcut meaning something like "a bot/botnet crawling a website for nefarious purposes in a high-traffic way with abusive disregard for the site's computational and bandwidth resources".