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Re: [wp-hackers] Referrer Spam [s]

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  • Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Referrer Spam [s]
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:24:17 +0100
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_____/ On Tue 11 Oct 2005 07:28:21 BST, [Amit Gupta] wrote : \_____

Dougal Campbell <dougal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|  See also, my SpamValve project:
|
|     http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/category/spamvalve/
|
|  Though, SV has a much higher barrier to entry. But if you're able to
use
|  it, it can actually reduce the spam traffic before it can even reach
|  your web server

though it certainly looks interesting & will probably save more CPU
resources but the thing is that Bad Behavior will find more public
adoption than Spam Valve as unlike Spam Valve, Bad Behavior doesn't
require root access & many people are still on shared hosting without
root access to their servers.

...let alone have any access to a console for their /own/ account/s (unless they
use cron jobs as a workaround).


Dougal, I read about SpamValve and I appreciate your suggestion. As it's the
first time spam of that scale hit me (peaking at over 200 MB of dynamic content
per day), I decided to just re-direct to a forbidden (code 403) page. This has
worked for over a day.


Roy

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