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24/04/2023

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2023/04/24#p1

Getting absolutely hammered by bots today:

Hammered by spam bots

I'm going to have to change the mechanism from blocking individual IP addresses to ranges.

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2023/04/24#p2

I think I might have to stop the blog sending me emails when a login attempt is blocked, only sending the failed attempts so I can block them.

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Stefan says: Reply to Stefan

I just disabled all emails from my blog and turned on push notifications. Game changer! This sounds counterintuitive but for me push notifications are way easier to ignore and the don't need an explicit interaction with it (like deleting).

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Colin Walker replied:

Nice.

That's it an option for me with this system but once I've reworked the blocking feature to look at ranges (and checked it's working) I'll be able to stop most of the mail's. I want to receive the ones advising of a failed login attempt. I don't want to implement an auto-block just in case I mistype my password and block myself 😆

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