Dave I feel your pain. The Iris Encyclopedia has been plagued the last few months with I think AI bots. It seems that any successful site has a problem keeping it running. Thank you for all your work on this., If you find solutions I would love to know about them. Bob Pries On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM Garak via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Actually, the list is just on another server as a precaution - it is > just as much under attack as any other internet service - 99% of the > people here have not the slightest idea about the battles David and > Diane fight to keep it from being run over by spam bots. The internet is > not a peaceful place. > > Martin > > Am 15.10.25 um 15:33 schrieb Dave Dobak via pbs: > > Over the years, members have posed the question > > "Do we still need this dinosaur-era list-serve?" > > > > It looks like the answer is, emphatically, YES! > > > > Dave Dobak > > -- > Martin (pronoun: he) > ---------------------------------------------- > Southern Germany > Likely zone 7a > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…