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Subject: Re: robot denial 
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> 
> > But perhaps it might be better to extend the authoriazation stuff to
> > allow something like
> > 
> > <Limit GET>
> > order allow,deny
> > allow from all
> > deny agent /robot
> > </Limit>
> > 
> > which would also allow denial to individual user agents e.g.
> > 
> > deny agent Crawler/1.4 SiteTrasher/0.0001 Mozilla/42.42
> 
> Excelent idea !
> 
> I really like the latter; if no-one else goes for it I'll write
> a module which does.
> 
> Dw.

I assume that we could still use:

deny from 1.2.3.4
deny agent Crawler/1.4 SiteTrasher/0.0001 Mozilla/42.42

to only restrict agents from that address?