Apache fog

There have been literally dozens of unusually-distasteful spams this past week, promoting forced sexual activity, something I'd just as soon not take part in promoting. (The actual text string is redacted to keep the pervs slightly less pervasive.) None of these made it past the spam traps, and MTAutoBan killed a number of offending IPs, but reasoning that ZombieNet will sooner or later cough up the same crap from new sources, I decided to tack on a line or two in the .htaccess file on the Apache server.

Not so wise. I got said lines out of sequence, and every subsequent http access drew a 403 Forbidden.

The fix, via FTP, was easy enough, but it was a tad scary for a couple of moments around here.

Posted at 6:19 AM to PEBKAC