Refer Spamming · 22 February 2004
A lot of people using Refer have noticed the increasingly frequent appearance of spurious referrers such britney-spears-breakfast-beers.blogspot.com in their referrer lists.
I’ve been seeing this junk recorded by other traffic reporting software, thus I don’t think Refer installs are being specifically targeted; nonetheless measures should be taken to silence this incredibly dim-witted ‘marketing’.
In the current version of Refer running on this site I’ve added a filtering mechanism which disallows multiple referrers to be delivered by the same visitor address, like, oh I don’t know, hmdnsgroup.com or h24-69-156-45.no.shawcable.net.
The update is still too flaky to release, and is taking up all available time, however those running older versions of Refer can take advantage of by Eric Goldberg, which filters spammers based on their user-agent headers.
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