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Re: Referrer Spam

  • Subject: Re: Referrer Spam
  • From: David Dorward <dorward@yahoo.com>
  • Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:21:59 +0000
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> I can no longer see my
> referrers because it's hard to distinguish spam and real citations. Is
> there a way to prevent this? (I doubt it)

Write a bot (I'd use Perl with LWP) to visit each referer and look for a
link to your site, dump each entry in to the log to /dev/null or a new file
depending on the result. Not 100% reliable, but it should help.

-- 
David Dorward       <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/>   <http://dorward.me.uk/>
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      • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>
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