Is there a better way to block spamers IP's than this?

[Wayne Seguin]

Igor,

Thank you *very* much for your response. I just realized I did not  
email the list for this, so I'm doing this now.

   ~Wayne

On Jun 13, 2008, at 15:02 , Igor Sysoev wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:58:51AM -0400, Wayne Seguin wrote:
>
>> http://pastie.org/private/e5gowb2njixv2xhvwzpu8g
>
> Yes:
>
> http {
>    geo $spamer {
>        default         0;
>
>        12.166.96.32/27 1;
>        41.202.0.0/17   1;
>        ...
>    }
>
>    server {
>
>        if ($spamer) {
>            return 403;
>        }
>
>        ...
>    }
>
>
>
> -- 
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/