<directory> and deny directives

["Mark A. Craig" <mark.a.craig@xxxxxxxxx>]

My little humble blog has been getting way too much attention from 
comment spammers, and I'd like to begin cutting them off.  I've 
identified the hostnames they use to snoop for details to construct fake 
referer data, and now I want to cut them off.  I thought I could do it 
like this:

<Directory "C:/www/blog">
   Options None
   AllowOverride None
   #Order allow,deny
   #Allow from all
   order deny,allow
   deny from .svservers.com
   deny from .static.theplanet.com
   deny from .goo.ne.jp
   deny from .cable.casema.nl
   deny from -xbox.dedi.inhoster.com
   deny from .knology.net
   deny from .pppoe.mtu-net.ru
   deny from .barak-online.net
   deny from .barak.net.il
   deny from .keymachine.de
   deny from .hostingprod.com
   deny from .client.bresnan.net
   deny from 210.240.
   deny from .dsl.ip.tiscali.nl
   deny from .qwerty.ru
   deny from .t-ipconnect.de
</Directory>

There's only one problem: it's not working!  The log still shows visits 
from these hostnames.  What am I missing?  Do I need to add "/*" to the 
end of the <Directory> directive, or do subdirectories implicitly 
inherit the same directives?

Mark


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