Re: [Qtella-users] [feature request] Host Blackhole?

[Daniel E. <de...@gm...>]

Hi,
this feature is coming with the next release. When you receive
such results you can add this host to the block list and all incoming
results from this host are blocked.

Regards,
Daniel

On Wednesday 29 May 2002 04:03, Cliff L. Biffle wrote:
> I've been increasingly running across hosts who will return your search
> results verbatim with some extension (generally .mpg).  When you open the
> file, it's some sort of an ad for a porn site.
> (To demonstrate the phenomenon, the same host returned 'frank zappa mud
> shark.mpg', 'devilled egg duct tape pr0n.mpg', and 'ajwioaugeklawjeg.mpg'
> on consecutive searches.  Coincidentally, all had the same file size.)
>
> So -- I see that there's a facility in 0.5.2 to block hosts.  I'm not sure
> what this blocks them from doing (downloading -from- you?) but it'd be
> really groovy if there was a similar list that let us 'blackhole' a host. 
> By this, I mean the host (as far as we can tell) ceases to exist: search
> results from the host are not displayed, etc.
>
> What do y'all think?  Has anyone else experienced this?  My all-time high
> was a search that returned 48 results, 47 of which were from the same IP
> address and were various permutations of my search query, all of which had
> the same file size.  (I didn't open it up to find out what it was. :-)
>
> (The reason I'm requesting this instead of working on a patch is that, for
> all I know, it's already in CVS -- I'm running straight 0.5.2 from the
> tarball.)
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Cliff L. Biffle
>
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