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Re:Error 418 – I'm a Teapot by spc476 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:32PM (#25284185)
I have a gopher server [1] that kept getting requests from some webbot. So I extended the gopher server to respond to any HTTP style request with "418 I'm a teapot". Sure enough, the webbot stopped making requests shortly thereafter.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/

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