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New Spam Frontier: Referer Logs

Posted by timothy on from the die-spammers-die dept.

geoffsmith writes "Wired News is reporting that spammers are using referer logs as a cheap new way to spam small sites. Anyone running a website has probably already seen this phenomenon; I'm thinking of writing a script to remove these entries from my access_log by looking for hits that don't grab my images. (sorry lynx users!)"

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  1. Re:Spam Lite by Tablizer · · Score: 1, Troll

    For about the past 2 weeks, the amount of spam in my hotmail inbox has dropped from about 40 to around 15 a day. Anyone else had something similar to this happen?

    Yes, when I stopped using Hotmail.

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