Fighting those annoying referrer spams

Running a blog in general, but apparently especially running one which talks about spam, one gets hit with a huge amount of spam. Getting it via e-mail is not a huge deal, I am already well configured to deal with that.
But getting comment spam and trackback ping spams is hugely annoying.

The comment spam is easy enough these days, you just install MT-Blacklist and it does most all of the work for you.

With the older version, it also would handle most of the work for trackback ping spams (or at least give the illusion of doing so), but now with the newer version of it, it actually seems to be worse at it (or more honest about what it isn't doing).
But here is a write-up on how to get around that. In that particular case, it discusses various options, but seems to mostly focus on how to get them out of your log files. This is especially relevant if you make your log files open to the public, then the high referral spams will show up in there which is what they want - so you can negate that with this technique.

Posted by Eric at February 28, 2005 10:17 AM | TrackBack