yah..
the quick/dirty way is just to add 'bad IPs' to your .htaccess in the domain root (public_html or httpdocs)
then you don't have those ips hitting your ubbthreads and causing undue load on queries that they shouldn't be allowed to do..
as for the other geek stuff i posted.. it's prolly best to have a geek do it (maybe your hosting provider should do it for FREE! )
dunno
