Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/15/02:00:28
Dear <webmaster AT cygwin DOT com>:
Clicking on the red link to download setup.exe off of the main www.cygwin.com
page results in the following nastygram:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>sources.redhat.com</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<div align="center">
<a href="/"><img src="/img/topbar-standalone.png" alt="" border=0></a>
</div>
<h1>Spambot detected.</h1>
<p>Hi, your web browser has triggered our spambot detection mechanism.
A spambot is a computer program designed to scoop up e-mail addresses
and bombard them with unsolicited advertisements.
<p>If we made a mistake, and you really are a human being, we apologize
profusely. It just happens that your browser looks VERY similar to a
known spambot. Please try using a different browser and you should have
no problem connecting to the site.
<p>
Have a good day (and die, spambots, die)
</BODY>
</HTML>
...from a referral to a badspammer-001.html URL apparently at
sources.redhat.com...? My user-agent string appears to be:
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511"
...according to what I get when I hit my own apache-2 webserver. Is this
enough information for someone to fix this issue, or would it help if I did a
tcpdump of the connection?
Thanks,
--
-Chuck
PS: I have BCC'ed webmaster@ on this, please CC: me but keep any discussion
just on the main cygwin list rather than forcing webmaster to read an entire
thread rather than just a single message as an alert.
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