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[Woe]

Unfortunately, I've come across a lot of idiotic people who think it is fun to spam. So I've used .htaccess to block their IP's and hosts. But there is a certain guy who is a forum spammer so I thought it'd be funny to redirect him to google.com when he types in the URL to my site's forum. So how would I go about redirecting him to google.com with .htaccess?

[rc69]

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} 000.000.000.000
RewriteRule .* http://google.com[F,L]

That would be my best guess. I use something similar in my .htaccess to prevent e-mail harvesting bots. Although, as i've never really tested it, i can't say how well it would work.
You can also stack conditions.
i.e.

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} 000.000.000.000
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} 000.000.000.001
RewriteRule .* http://google.com[F,L]

[Woe]

Thanks. I'll give it a try.