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Re: gcc.gnu.org and IBrowse ("spambot detected" problem)
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:52:15AM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 11:02:33AM +0100, Christian Rosentreter took 38 lines to write:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> "Spambot detected.
>>
>> Hi, your web browser has triggered our spambot detection
>> mechanism. A spambot is a computer program designed to
>> scoop up e-mail addresses and bombard them with unsolicited
>> advertisements.
>>
>> If we made a mistake, and you really are a human being,
>> we apologize profusely. It just happens that your browser
>> looks VERY similar to a known spambot. Please try using a
>> different browser and you should have no problem connecting
>> to the site.
>>
>> Have a good day (and die, spambots, die)"
>>
>> this is what I get when I browse with IBrowse (well known
>> Webbrowser for AmigaOS/ MorphOS) on gcc.gnu.org.
>>
>> Is Internet Explorer required to visit this site now? Sadly
>
>Of course not. I browse it constantly using Mozilla, Netscape, Firefox, and
>Opera. Oh, I get it, that was hyperbole!
Yeah, and, so was basically noise and completely unhelpful.
Although I was tempted to just block anything with the string "Amiga"
in it, I relented and removed IBrowse from the list of blocked
user agents.
If this happens to anyone else, a cut-and-dry problem report without
the hyperbole, sent to the overseers mailing list at gcc.gnu.org
is the way to get things rectified.