So people, what methods are you using to keep bots away from your site?

They are really annoying, they consume all of my site's bandwidth. Everyday I get many of them. Imagine that they are about 20-30 online, the same time! They are all from the same IP range..

Block them, block their IP's? Do what!?

family. right before the christmas eve mass, i got an email saying a friend of mine committed suicide the night before. i was in absolute shock and disbelief and i couldn't even move when i got home. my mom was getting frustrated that i wouldn't help out and said, "i'm sorry about your friend, but we have to entertain tonight. help me set the table." but when my cousin came in (he's 14), he immediately started cheering me up and just let me forget about it for a couple hours. it meant the world to me and it was completely unexpected of him.

If you look at Alert.as and/or AlertForm.as, it seems that the Alert is trying

to manage the proportions of the window on its own. It looks at the width of

the title and the width of the text, and then seems to break the text into

multiple lines to make the alert look somewhat square, as opposed to stretched

I wanted to have some more control over this, so I wrote a wrapper function to

display alerts that padded the title text with spaces until it was long enough

to create a window wide enough to hold my text with minimal wrapping