Spam. Damn spam!
First email spam, then blog comment spam, wiki spam and now the latest, Referer log spam.
Referrer spam is getting serious on my blog. On a conservative estimate, 50% of last month’s web traffic are spam.
Basically there is no effective solution to stop these spammers. If your webhosting has monthly traffic quota, it will eat into that. The only way might be to request filtering at the hosting provider’s router but it is unlike that a provider will want to do that.
On top of that, these spam totally ruined traffic statistics. The statistics are so skewed that the only way to fix it is to filtering the log and re-run the stats.
Spent the morning adding some Apache rewrite rules. Not that it helps much but it sure feels good to give these bastard the 403.
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