[Leica] Is the gallery down?

[Brian Reid]

There are hundreds of different IPs in use, so blocking them is futile.
I turned off the server. We shall see if it goes away. I suspect it will 
be stubborn.


On 2025-12-24 09:56, Christopher Crawford via LUG wrote:
> Why don’t you block the IP that the bot is coming from, and if not
> possible, shut the server down until it goes away, instead of letting
> it steal LUG members’ photos?
> 
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>> On Dec 24, 2025, at 12:51 PM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Today again the gallery has a heavy load. Today there is an AI bot in 
>> Brazil that is downloading every image, but it is being nicer than was 
>> yesterday’s Chinese download, and is using only 20 parallel streams.
>> 
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