Referrer log hell

July 17th, 2005

I popped on to look at my AwStats the other day, only to find 5 pages of adverts for various bits of rubbish in my referrer logs.

This upset me a great deal, I’d had the occasional bit of referrer spam sneaking in, but on the whole its not been enough to motivate me to install a plugin.

I am now whooping and dancing around with glee everytime i see another bad referrer hit the Referrer Kama log, it’s really made my day. Now we just have to sit and wait for the next line of blog spammer attacks, most probably trackback spam and RSS Spam (which is already starting to hit Technorati results)

1 Response to “Referrer log hell”

  1. Dave's Rants Says:
    August 12th, 2005 at 06:53 PM

    My Spam Protection

    When I ran my site on Movable Type I used to get comment spam like others and it was annoying but I managed to avoid a lot of it because I ran my Movable Type installation off a separate sub-domain to davesrants.com to attempt to fool the spam bots. T...

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