http://www.resonant.org/20050124-referrer-spam Comments for "Referrer Spam" en http://www.resonant.org/20050124-referrer-spam#comment-10 <p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/">The Register</a> is running an article containing an <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/31/link_spamer_interview/">interview with a link spammer</a>. They kindly make this person anonymous, and imply that there's really only 8 or so of them responsible for all this grief.</p> <p>So... do we have anyone willing to get into the business long enough to identify these guys?</p> Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:20:04 -0500 Zed comment 10 at http://www.resonant.org http://www.resonant.org/20050124-referrer-spam <p>I'm already showing signs of getting referral spammers, and I get hardly any traffic and have no visible referer logs other than my log analyzer, which is in turn covered under robots.txt. Fortunately, a number of people have come up with useful techniques to cut down on the flow, and I'll be linking to the best of them below. Unfortunately, the solutions fall into one of three categories: whack-a-mole spammer mod_rewrite entries, blacklists with unclear formats and maintenance standards (some specific to MovableType, though using <a href="http://www.blars.org/mod_access_rbl.html">mod_access</a> to make use of existing e-mail blacklists is an interesting idea), and dangerous pattern matching.</p> <p><a href="http://www.resonant.org/20050124-referrer-spam">read more</a></p> http://www.resonant.org/20050124-referrer-spam#comments Annoyed Technology Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:52:51 -0500 Zed 368 at http://www.resonant.org