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Originally Posted by Black Snow
Never thought of that. Good idea. I think I will write something up for it and see if it works.
EDIT: Although this would stop them accessing the tags page, it would not stop them from requesting the page.
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That's true, but I think the load on your server is caused by the extensive search queries.
I'm sure the bots eventually figure out that they all get the same error and they'll stop visiting the page.
You can always try it out and see if that works.