'Tis the Well-Dressing Season

[JBR]

I fear I'd be described as one and I don't even like the term 'elderly'. I'm an older person, thank you very much.

I think 'senior citizen' might be a more appropriate term.

As for me, I'm a doddering old bugger.

[klondike]

To the callow youths (as the tossers looking after the Amazon bot almost certainly are) anybody over 30 would be regarded as geriatric.

It's still hammering away but sending an immediate 403 (forbidden) requires far less resource than running a php script to create a forum page from the database. I've set it to allow the robots.txt file regardless now so if they read that and obey the directive to sod off then even the load generating 403s will be removed too.

[GrannyMac]

Well done for even knowing what that means klondike! I'm in awe.

[Diasi]

To the callow youths (as the tossers looking after the Amazon bot almost certainly are) anybody over 30 would be regarded as geriatric.

It's still hammering away but sending an immediate 403 (forbidden) requires far less resource than running a php script to create a forum page from the database. I've set it to allow the robots.txt file regardless now so if they read that and obey the directive to sod off then even the load generating 403s will be removed too.

I can't see how these are legal, it's akin to spamming.

[klondike]

Well done for even knowing what that means klondike! I'm in awe.

It's only necessary to be aware of the basics. Google points to where you can crib the detail.

Just saw your recovery today. Wondering it its worth getting up 

There are far less legitimate bots than that one out there. The Internet is pretty much the wild west.

[JBR]

Well done for even knowing what that means klondike! I'm in awe.

Me too.  I know nowt about computers, apart from the on button.