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On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Thomas Dowling <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Now if I could just return an HTTP status that meant "Go #%@! yourself". That's more or less what 403 means[1]. In fact, returning: <html><head><title>Go #%@! yourself</title></head><body><p>And your spamming friends, too.</p></body></html> with a 403 status code would, I think, be the RFC-compliant way to tell the spammer to stick it where the sun don't shine ;-) The bots might get the message better from a 404, though. I mean, insofar as bots pay any attention whatsoever to the response your server sends back to them... :P -n [1] "403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it. Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD NOT be repeated." - RFC 2616