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Block over zealous web crawlers
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some crawlers just can't read, when they ignore robots.txt & keep crawling the same files, add this to .htaccess
those 3 are the worst but add more in the same format in that line


RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Reflectionbot|PetalBot|DotBot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
  
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