First post, by unterwulf
Hi,
A couple years ago I made a bot for me and my friends, which visits a number of downgrade sites once per 15 minutes, collects any updates and posts them into a telegram channel (https://t.me/oldhuborgnews). Yesterday VOGONS started to block the bot from accessing the site, presumably by its IP. I just wanted to know if the bot violates some policy and was banned intentionally. IMHO, the bot did nothing wrong and once in 15 minutes doesn't sound like a huge stress for any server.
I already excluded vogons.org from the list of sites the bot visits, but I really hate doing this. I'd love to hear adminstration's postion on this. Since it was ok for years I hope that the bot was banned unintentionally or it's a some kind of mistake.
Thanks!