There's a lot of things to think about here, as other monks have well-noted. One thing I could add for you to think about: You could also inadvertently block a router that's doing NAT for an entire organization. Everyone behind that router would appear to come from the same IP address in your logs. You may end up deciding that blocking a whole organization is OK, but at least consider what you're dealing with.

One of the more clever ways to stop robots, IMO is to have a tarpit link / picture that triggers a penalty period. Bots are dumb, and they'll fall for it every time, unless a human codes around your particular tarpit.

My favorite example is the tarpit for SQLite on their wiki.

In reply to Re: blocking site scrapers by pboin
in thread blocking site scrapers by Anonymous Monk

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