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Referrer Spam


My referrer logs are full of references to debt consolidation, poker, car rental, dating sites and similar rubbish. I think the idea is that if I happen to publish my referrer logs then these sites get pagerank.

I don't publish these logs and it gauls me that these people are eating my bandwidth and giving me false hits. Drupal makes it awkward to find the originating IP addresses, otherwise I'd be denying access. Ok, I may cut out folk on dynamic IPs but life is hard.

Drupal has a mechanism for telling the world about the existance of a new Drupal installation. I thought I had this turned off. Somehow the comment spammers know my site exists and are using thier Drupal logins to spam it. Bad Drupal.


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