alt Hacker News> The VersionAddendum will cause most poorly coded bots to hang, thus causing the botter to exclude us from their scans rather than us having to block them.
Why does this happen, wouldn't bots just ignore the version information?
> The VersionAddendum will cause most poorly coded bots to hang, thus causing the botter to exclude us from their scans rather than us having to block them.
Why does this happen, wouldn't bots just ignore the version information?
That would be a "properly designed" bot and not a poorly-coded one