depends why you are banning them. if they are hitting you with tons of button.php requests, then htaccess is better. besides that, it doesn't matter much
Most of the spammers now days don't even bother adding the button code. I'm usually banning them just to prevent them from rejoining (though they can always find another way). I really don't think they'd keep purchasing domains though to get pass the url bans.
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