Bots

[lightningbird666]

How are people protecting their websites against bot traffic? 

I know in the past there have been scripts you can add to prevent webcrawlers like alexa and waybackmachine. But these were site specific and I'm not sure they work anymore. 

I'm trying to update myself. 

There's search engine bots. 
There's ai bots. 
There's web archive bots like wayback machine. 
There's spam bots. 

what else is there? And how do you block them to protect your bandwidth? 

Also, I have not tried implementing any of the included php forum/message boards that helio-host provides. 

But the last php message board I threw up on the interwebs got annihilated by russian bots posting links for medications. The bots figured out how to register usernames and one day I went on there and there was like 1000 registered bots and I just shut it down. To be fair though, that was on my friends server and I did not have access to anything but the ftp. 

Still have yet to try again. 

Also I've always had problems from spammers with posted email address's on pages. Like myemail@email.com 
The way to fix this is parse it like [myemail] @ [email.com] or something to that effect. 

I actually don't mind it though because it's very obvious which emails are scam emails from bots. and it keeps me on my toes and updated on their language. 
 

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What are we doing about these jerks?