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Spammers again

2006-01-20 17:50:32.184786+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

The thrice damned referrer spammers took down the server last night. I've put in further safeguards and some extremely lightweight redirects for outside links to heavyweight pages. I don't know what to do generally, it's not like I have any recourse against these people, I stopped doing referrer tracking ages ago (like, around the time where Todd used that trick to make us the #2 result for "French Military Victories"), I can't block all outside links...

Anyway, we'll try this.

[ related topics: Flutterby Meta Todd Gemmell Net Culture ]

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