On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Always Learning <centos at u62.u22.net> wrote: > >> > >> > The alternative is to be a willing victim. > >> It's more a question of why you run the service at all. If blocking >> people from reaching it doesn't bother you, why not just shut it down? > > Blocking people ? Data Centre bots that download all or parts of my web > sites for someone's personal amusement or for commercial gain of their > customers or simply to find email addresses to use for spamming, are not > the 'people' I want to attract. You said you were blocking IPs. The IPs you see don't represent people or even specific devices and you have no way of knowing the correspondence. > Why should I tolerate some malicious nutter trying to hack into my web > servers ? Better to block their IP after the first attempt. Why tolerate anyone? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com