just for reference sake this ends up working:

BrowserMatch AllSubmitter spammer
Deny from env=spammer

how would I go about denying only the following user agent I'm seeing in logfiles?:
"Mozilla/4.0 (AllSubmitter)"
for that matter how would I go about specifying more than one user-agent to deny?

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Trying to use mod_rewrite to convert all filenames in a subdirectory to lowercase (they may also include other characters, or numbers). Also I want to make sure that they 301 for search engine...

What do you have for ListenAddress? If you point it to something like 127.0.0.1 then that may be messing you up -try just 'Listen 80', and also if you're using NameVirtualHost directives, be sure...

What is the word on how effective this is as far google picking up on the url change and preserving the rewritten url with it's old status in the index?
I posted another question regarding how to...

If you are using a global header you may try using this meta tag as well:
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,NOFOLLOW">
But really you really only need to use that when you have files in a...

OK, that was lame and unclear what I'm really looking for with mod_rewrite, I want to make sure I got it right, sorry.

SO if i have a link in a flat page that looks like
...

I've tried different approaches on this and am losing the battle - perhaps someone here will have some guidance that could help me to be winning!

the url is normally like ...