Saving Us From Referral Log Spam!
This makes me giddy. Giddy like a little schoolgirl.
If you’ve been using Dean Allen’s wonderful Refer script on your Weblog, you might have seen an increase in spamming of your referral logs over the last few months. [I know that I have.]
But no more. Dean points us to a Refer patch by Eric Goldberg that will wipe clean most all of the bots.
I’m sure that the bots will work up a way to get around this eventually, but for now, my referral logs can come back to mean something again, which means I’ll probably re-open them to you, the reader. I want you to see how people get here as well.
Posted February 22nd, 2004 in Geekery by Geof F. Morris.
Thanks for the link. I’m glad that BotWhack is working well for people.
Cool site. Love the Firefox support, and the fact that it looks good on Linux.
February 23rd, 2004 at 21:19Eric: If I find any more Agents to block, I’ll holler. I have had a couple people leak through, but I haven’t had time to go digging in my logs and do a one-to-one match on it.
February 23rd, 2004 at 21:22