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Re: Favorite way to ban an IP from your webserver?



 On Dec 11, 2007 11:21 AM, Matt Shields <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> 
> I'm sorry, but if someone doesn't have the common sense to take what 
> people say and do a little investigation into why they gave that 
> answer and possibly learn what you are doing instead of typing 
> something in with blind faith, then you deserve what damage it might 
> cause.  Linux is not that difficult as some people claim, what I've 
> found is most people are ignorant and don't care to learn new things, 
> especially when it comes to computers. I as a computer professional 
> absolutely hate it when someone asks for help, then they don't learn 
> and they continue to do it over and over again.  Yet we IT 
> professionals put up with their ignorance.  I can sit anyone down in 
> front of Linux show them 'man' and tell them before they type any new 
> command they first have to type 'man command' and learn what it does. 
> What this does is it teaches people to try to find the answer first, 
> then if they can't figure it out ask questions.  Then when I give them 
> the answer or point them in the right direction I expect that they 
> learn from it. 
> 
> Also, if you actually trust every person you meet, then you are fool. 
> Of course there are people out there that want to do you harm, and 
> even more so on the internet.  So why one earth would you trust 
> someone that you haven't even met and do exactly everything they say 
> without doing some research.  Yeah, like I'm going to blindly trust 
> anyone that tells me to run a command on my personal machines or my 
> work's very expensive servers. 
> 
> By the way, since you trust everyone, can I borrow $100?  I promise to 
> pay it back to you tomorrow 
> 


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