Referrer Spam Countermeasures
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I have been running a “Referrer Spam Countermeasures” module I have written for just over a week now. It is totally automatic and maintenance-free (unlike my previous attempts). So far it has proven to 100% effective. | ||
Haha, this isn’t really a fault with your excellent software DarkBlue but an amusing result non the less. Looking through your referrers this morning I noticed the following line: /cgi-bin/formmail.pl http://suche.webcrawler.de/ I have a sneaking suspicion that this is NOT the kind of link you want to host on your website. In a rather amusing twist you cannot really count this as spam yet it still links through to some moderately hard core pr0n. Feel free to obfuscate the URL upon reading this. ;) | ||
You’re right Noah. This isn’t the sort of referrer I want to see in my logs, but it is a genuine referrer. So I will let it stand. Obviously this is not a software failure - unlike the other bugs you brought to my attention! :-) |
