Tag: Referrer-Spam

  • Monster apologise

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    Tom Raftery
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    I received a phone call this morning from James Mailley, the Sales Director of Monster.ie. James is John Burns’ boss. James was extremely apologetic about what happened over the last couple of days and said he would like to email me a formal letter of apology. I told him that I would publish the letter…

  • Monster steals email addresses and spams it@cork membership

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    Tom Raftery
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    This morning one of it@cork‘s members forwarded us an email conversation he had with John Burns, Monster‘s Business Development Manager in Ireland. We were incredulous when we read it. It started with an email from Monster’s John Burns to 189 recipients and CC’d to our member (!). Our member replied to John that this was…

  • Using .htaccess to minimise comment and referrer spam

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have been using my .htaccess file to stop comment and referrer spam on this site and it has been surprisingly successful (so far!). How do I create a .htaccess file capable of greatly reducing comment and referrer spam? Firstly, I use Awstats to analyse visits to my site daily and I use Spam Karma…

  • Log file and Blog comment spam

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    Tom Raftery
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    I use AwStats to monitor traffic on the tomandpilar.net site. I monitor the traffic regularly and recently started to notice that my site was apparently being linked to by some very strange sounding sites – Online Poker sites and Online Pharmacies! A quick bit of investigation (and a quick word of explanation from FrankP) told…