I don't see any justification to your view being supplied.

I do see contrary arguments such as: there are more Windows viruses for the simple reason that there are more Windows systems out there. So there should be more similarly http bots out there because there are plenty of http servers but no xyz bots because there are no xyz servers.

As to the problem shifting slowly and reforming, perhaps it would eventually. But the weakness of the existing protocols is that they ARE protocols, leaving little room for flexible problem-solving of the bad-bot problem. The advantage of a clean slate is that you can build more room for anti-bot measures into the protocol itself and have more choice of layers of action.

-M

Free your mind

In reply to Re^2: How to implement a fourth protocol by Moron
in thread How to implement a fourth protocol by Moron

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