As some of you may have noticed, I'm messing with Apache's mod_rewrite so I can make my site unavailable to various spammers, annoying bots and (I must admit to my main motivation) the worst of the anonymous-comment lusers who have started infesting the Java blogosphere.

I mean seriously. Anonymous comment-flames? "Attack-blogs" written specifically to insult one person? Don't you think we could progress just a little beyond the Slashdot mentality? For fuck's sake people, grow up.

I have nothing against anonymity per se, and I personally loathe the "We won't talk to you if you don't join our club!" sites that want you to sign up before you can leave a comment. I'm just rather saddened by the fact that anonymity is inevitably used as an excuse by a certain proportion of the population to run around acting like five-year olds who have discovered that saying "bum" is hilarious, and want to share that with as much of the world as often as possible.

Anyway, the reason some of you may have noticed that is because my prototype ban-manager script didn't know how to deal with an empty banlist, went slightly insane and banned the whole world.

It should all be fixed now.