tangor - 8:53 am on Apr 4, 2010 (gmt 0)

Confusing me. I ban a number of ips via .htaccess. Still show up in my logs, as a 293byte 403 file (piddling content wise). That tells me the banned ip did NOT get content and, at the same time, tells me if they are still trying to get it. If you don't want them to show up in the logs at all you'll want to redirect the ip to a separate log file, but that another topic (which you can research here on WW).