Still got the comments disabled at the mo. I haven’t had the time to make the necessary changes to the code, but it’s pretty high on my list.

Grepping through the referrer logs shows that there’re still a lot of unwelcome visitors. I suppose that we should take some slight satisfaction in noting that the spambots aren’t at Turing level just yet, and have to reply on brute force. Wankers.

I have made a bit of a start by introducing some filters into my .htaccess file. I’ll post these in due course if they seem to do any good, but when both the IPs the spammers use and the site addresses they promote change so fast it’s a bit of a losing battle. Still, there are definite patterns to the domains so that gives us somewhere to start.

Anyone surfing past this post with any helpful suggestions or comments is especially encouraged to mail me. Cheers.