Volume difference with older crawlers? [LWN.net]

Volume difference with older crawlers?

Posted Feb 17, 2026 8:47 UTC (Tue) by taladar (subscriber, #68407)
In reply to: Volume difference with older crawlers? by mb
Parent article: Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine

They also now want you to host a website on the domain in your server IP's reverse DNS entry that has some sort of redirect to a website with a contact form for them to use in case of abuse.

I am certainly not going to run a webserver on every single server I run under the server's hostname (which is deliberately chosen to not be any of the services it hosts to make migrating those services easier) just because the T-Online mail admin team is too incompetent to use the abuse@ addresses like everyone else.

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Volume difference with older crawlers?

Posted Feb 17, 2026 10:26 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

T-Online? Germany?

If you start getting spam to that address file a formal complaint under your equivalent of the GDPR, that they leaked your private email address.

Dunno how many legs it has, but given the circumstances any reasonable regulator *should* conclude that they clearly breached the regs.

(Although whether said reasonable regulator actually has sufficient brain cells to *understand* the complaint is another matter...)

Cheers,
Wol