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

["Matt Shields-5" <user=70@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Dec 11, 2007 12:38 PM, Padraig <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> 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 
> > 
> 
> Hear that?  That's the sound of everything said about the concept of trust 
> going completely over your head. 
> 
> Congrats. 
>