Spinn3r

Spinn3r is a very impolite web crawler which brings no public benefit.

Hostile

The Spinn3r robot may decide to fetch your RSS feed every 5 minutes, which is really impolite.

No public benefit

The spinn3r.com homepage states that "Spinn3r is licensed on a monthly basis per thousand blogs crawled, indexed, and delivered. Please contact us for a price quote.".

There is no public search interface. There is no way to enjoy the data it gathers without paying a license fee. Thus; Spinn3r costs a lot of resources and brings no visitors to your site. It has no public benefit at all.

Solution

# aggregator:Spinn3r, "Spinn3r is licensed on a monthly basis"
# Copyright 2008 Tailrank Inc.
# 64.34.192.0 - 64.34.199.255, seen from 64.34.195.137
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i eth0 -s 64.34.192.0/24 -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i eth0 -s 64.34.193.0/24 -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i eth0 -s 64.34.194.0/24 -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i eth0 -s 64.34.195.0/24 -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i eth0 -s 64.34.196.0/24 -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i eth0 -s 64.34.197.0/24 -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i eth0 -s 64.34.198.0/24 -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i eth0 -s 64.34.199.0/24 -j DROP