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@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-06-18 01:35:26

They (or an intentional DDoS) have been pounding the #SpamAssassin RuleQA site into catatonia. They construct URLs which are legitimate and which each cause the site to go digging for the specific performance of a rule on an arbitrary date in the past. Hundreds of rules tested daily for ~20 years.

tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
"AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline" #AI is ruining our digital world (Original title: AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums) https://www.404media.co/ai-scraping-bots-are-breaking-open-libraries-archives-and-museums/

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-06-14 20:02:41

Also: anyone who feels like donating anti-DDoS services to the #ASF #SpamAssassin project could find interest from the PMC and sysadmin team...