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Subject: Re: Best method to Stop EmailSiphon
In-Reply-To: <01bdf6f2$53d309e0$055da8c0@hp.visiontm.com> from Harry Patterson at "Oct 13, 98 05:42:07 pm"
To: harry@visiontm.com (Harry Patterson)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 18:06:01 -1000 (HST)
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>In reviewing my logs recently I noticed the robot EmailSiphon had been to my
>site. 
>In researching alternatives, it looks like the best way to prevent robots 
>like EmailSiphon is to use Apache's deny command in the config file.


Here is what I have in mine- seems to work.

BrowserMatch EmailSiphon spamcollector

<Files "*" >
  order deny,allow
  deny from env=spamcollector
</Files>  

-David Langford

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