For some reason, this month has seen a flood of referrer spam. Although the referral logs are not published, they are increasingly clogged with spam links, making them all but useless to me.

I've pretty much fixed spamming in the comment and trackback logs. But the referrer logs are a new battleground for me. But I don't place 100% of the blame on the spammers. Also to blame are people who feel the need to publish their referrals. By doing so they provide the precious links that spammers crave. Then of course there are the idiots who buy their products or fall for their schemes. Let's face it, if it weren't profitable, they wouldn't do it.

My next steps are to figure out how to keep these bottom feeders from clogging my server logs. I'm looking into blacklists and using .htaccess, but so far there is no clear way to keep them at bay.