Not Getting Translated

It is possible that a few (many?) webmasters / page authors out there will not want their work altered or otherwise mashed about by The Voices of Many.

If that should happen, here are methods you can use to remove your site from The Voices of Many. They have been ordered by what is recommended - first to last - in my opinion, although your mileage may vary as no two systems are exactly alike.

Quick links:

1. Use a robots.txt file
2. Talk to me, Pete Spicer
3. Use an IP block

1. Use a robots.txt file

   A robots.txt file is a small text file located in the top directory of a website (e.g. thevoicesofmany.com/robots.txt) which contains instructions to robots (automated programs on websites/computers) about what they should/should not do as regards a particular website.

   If you wanted to block any access from The Voices of Many, your robots.txt file would need to contain the following:

     User-Agent: thevoicesofmany
     Disallow: /
     

   Case isn't too important, as long as it says user-agent on the first line in the block, and thevoicesofmany as all one word, to signify that it is an instruction to The Voices of Many.

   The next lines (and they should all be continuous lines, otherwise they may be ignored) should all begin "Disallow:" and contain the directory or directories you wish to block. If you want to block any/all access to a particular site, just put in the directory as /.

   For example, supposing I wanted to block parts of kissmyfaerie.org off (my other site), I might put the following instruction in kissmyfaerie.org/robots.txt:

     User-Agent: thevoicesofmany
     Disallow: /contact
     Disallow: /search
     

   Any pages beginning kissmyfaerie.org/contact or kissmyfaerie.org/search would be denied, and a message would be displayed to the user to show that we acknowledged the request but that the webmaster instructed us not to process that site.

2. Talk to me, Pete Spicer

   If the above doesn't work for you, or for some other reason it's not possible, drop me an email through this page and I'll see what I can do. Writing in blocking for specific pages, directories or even entire sites isn't out of the question, but please talk to me - maybe we can sort things out, but please drop me a line and I'll do what I can to help.

3. Use an IP block

   If the worst comes to the worst, and you need to take drastic action against us, and you don't have time to get in touch with Pete (the author), you can always set up your local webserver to block requests from The Voices of Many.

   Exactly how you do this will vary from webserver to webserver but whatever you need to do, it will probably look like this (this is the sort of syntax you'll need for Apache):

   <VirtualHost *>
   Deny from 69.56.173.191
   </VirtualHost>
   

   All you need to do is set up your firewall or proxy or server to simply deny any request that comes from the IP number 69.56.173.191.