Cool, thanks! I do use fail2ban on my VPSs fairly liberally, so filling any one log with too much noise will trigger an hours-long ban for the IP. What I liked

Cool, thanks! I do use fail2ban on my VPSs fairly liberally, so filling any one log with too much noise will trigger an hours-long ban for the IP. What I liked about the application-level interference is that you can do something more subtle than a block, while still feeding them nonsense, slowly.