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Re: [Lynx-dev] Suggestion for send user-agent header question


From: Mouse
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Suggestion for send user-agent header question
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:08:54 -0400 (EDT)

> Why pick on [lynx users]?  Did a lynx eat their pet dog when they
> were children?

I have seen it said - with what level of truth I know not - that there
is misbehaved scraper malware out there that pretends to be lynx.  If
this is true, then I suspect that a connection claiming to be lynx is
statistically more likely to be malware than a real user. :-(

Obviously, the fix is to get more people using lynx! :-)

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