Re: [Lynx-dev] Any idea what one can do about the people who feel the need to block lynx

[Travis Siegel]

Sounds like you got a boiler plate response.  It's unfortunate, but I 
find a lot of supposed tech support requests these days run up against a 
brick wall as regards actual help.  You're almost always quoted a 
nonrelevant piece of gibberish that has no bearing on the problem you're 
trying to solve.  The only thing to do is continue explaining (nicely if 
possible, though sometimes, it gets to the point where you just gotta 
vent on them), and eventually, someone will realize what you're asking 
isn't covered by their generic template responses, and you'll get an 
actual response that addresses the issue.  How many iterations this 
takes varies greatly, and in one case, after over a month of back and 
forths on a nearly daily basis, I finally gave up, and vowed never to 
use that site ever again, which interestingly enough I actually broke 
earlier today, and tried to purchase something else from them, which met 
with the same exact issues I'd gone back and forth with them about 
nearly 5 years ago.  Good to know some things never change.

On 6/22/2020 5:30 PM, Claudio Calvelli wrote:
> As we all know, there are ignorants who imagine that they need to block
> lynx from accessing their sites.  I just contacted one with evidence
> that they block based on user-agent and asked why they feel the need to
> deny access - and what do they come up with?
>
> > Please switch off your VPN or proxy then click here:
> > https://ceoemail.com
>
> I wasn't using a VPN or proxy, and of course that is completely 
> irrelevant
> to their User-Agent filtering. (and of course the URL they quoted 
> resulted
> in a "403 forbidden" because they have no idea what they are doing)
>
> Any suggestion on what one can tell these ignorants so they may learn
> something?
>
> Claudio Calvelli
>
>
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