Re: blogs and scrapers

**"* P* L* <t*@spamfodder.com>**

> A second note - here's the list of blogs this person is scraping.
> http://gardening-blogs.emoondo.com/sitemap
> 
> to help you out with the search

Maybe it's time to start embedding image 'captcha' when people want to
read past the first paragraph of a blog entry.

(captcha is the thing where you enter the number or letters or whatever
shown/heard to defeat automated robots from harvesting stuff).

Now, what I would do is trace through my logs for the IP of the scraper
and then modify my blog to present different data for just him/her.  Maybe
embed a few non-family images, a la goatse.cx[1] for giggles sake.

Chris

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx (article NSFW text)

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