[thelist] blocking User Agent = vobsub

[John C Bullas]

At 08:08 21/02/2004, you wrote
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>From: "John C Bullas" <jcbullas at nildram.co.uk>
>Subject: [thelist] blocking User Agent = vobsub
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>: User Agent = vobsub
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>: what do I put in .htaccess to block this agent!!!
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>: 55 404s!!!!!
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>I think you obsess a little too much about these 404s. If you're going to

You have to have something to play with...

Someone please tell me how to block vobsub or any other user agent please
and leave me to deal with whether I'm obsessive about 404s or not ;)

I just happen to want to know how to block agents that's all!

FB

>block every user agent that generates more than a few dozen 404s, I don't
>know what you're going to do when you start getting a few hundred thousand
>page views/month (or more).

Don't have any other agents that don't kick up so many errors unless they are
telling me I forgot to put another blessed robots.txt in!