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by James Robertson.
Original Post: The Spam cycle
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This is just fascinating. For awhile (up to about 2 months ago), I was getting new referer spam on the blog every day. I built up a rejects list - a simple text match against a file. That seemed to put a stop to that. Recently, I had a bunch of attempted comment spam (nothing like what some people are seeing - read this, for instance) - but my simple minded filter stopped that nonsense easily enough (with my non-mainstream server helping out a whole lot as well). Then today, a whole ton of referer spam again. The screwiest thing was that none of the urls actually resolved - is this pre-emptive spamming for domains that might exist someday soon? It's really weird...
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