Hello Fimble and thank you for your contribution.
I have a question for you and possibly a feature request.
As far as I understand a banned ip number can be released by the bot and could possibly be re-assigned by an ISP to a potential customer, consequently that potential customer won't be able to view my store unless s/he feels bothered to email me requesting that I (manually) remove their ip number from the blacklist. So I was wondering, would it be unwise to set up a scheduled task, such as a cron job(?), to reset the blacklist file back to its original content to avoid this inconvenience and potential loss of a customer? Or maybe even (manually) re-upload the original blacklist file and overwrite the existing one on the server once per week? What are your thoughts on the matter?
p.s. i realize it's unlikely to happen but eventually after thousands of ip numbers are in the blacklist file it will eventually happen, right?
thanks in advance for any response. :)