http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2005/02/15/referrer-karma-birth-of-an-anti-spam-tool/ Chemically-enhanced neural rewiring, on a semi-regular basis... Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:06:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2005/02/15/referrer-karma-birth-of-an-anti-spam-tool/#comment-13206 Lunacy Unleashed » Automattic Kismet Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2005/02/14/referrer-karma-birth-of-an-anti-spam-tool/#comment-13206 [...] You may not think this is important, especially if you have never received a large amount of spam at once. But the day is coming when you will, and having that first line of defense can mean the difference between your site staying up, and your Web host shutting off your site. Spammers can easily hit you so hard as to create denial-of-service conditions, and Bad Behavior has been proven to mitigate this effect. In fact, it’s even stood up to the Slashdot effect without blinking. [...] [...] You may not think this is important, especially if you have never received a large amount of spam at once. But the day is coming when you will, and having that first line of defense can mean the difference between your site staying up, and your Web host shutting off your site. Spammers can easily hit you so hard as to create denial-of-service conditions, and Bad Behavior has been proven to mitigate this effect. In fact, it’s even stood up to the Slashdot effect without blinking. [...]

]]> http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2005/02/15/referrer-karma-birth-of-an-anti-spam-tool/#comment-8623 IO ERROR » Well, I was on vacation… Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2005/02/14/referrer-karma-birth-of-an-anti-spam-tool/#comment-8623 [...] mitigate a DoS attack by comment spammers. This is not unthinkable; almost two months ago Dr Dave was hit by such a DoS attack. His site was d [...] [...] mitigate a DoS attack by comment spammers. This is not unthinkable; almost two months ago Dr Dave was hit by such a DoS attack. His site was d [...]

]]> http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2005/02/15/referrer-karma-birth-of-an-anti-spam-tool/#comment-8020 floggin » Blog Archive » Referrer Karma - A Referral Spam Prevention Tool Sat, 30 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2005/02/14/referrer-karma-birth-of-an-anti-spam-tool/#comment-8020 [...] same guy who makes Spam Karma for WordPress has gotten fed up with referral spammers after they knocked his website down for several hours. Hi [...] [...] same guy who makes Spam Karma for WordPress has gotten fed up with referral spammers after they knocked his website down for several hours. Hi [...]

]]> http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2005/02/15/referrer-karma-birth-of-an-anti-spam-tool/#comment-7882 sastian Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2005/02/14/referrer-karma-birth-of-an-anti-spam-tool/#comment-7882 well im not going to waste my time reiterating what you have said so well, i went thtrough the same thing. and was soo busy i couldnt do a thing other thatn just disable my wordpress install all together. my salvation though was the Wordpress Plugin Manager and Spam Karma. so glad to know im not alone out there. congrats on beating down the @#$##^% spammers! well im not going to waste my time reiterating what you have said so well, i went thtrough the same thing. and was soo busy i couldnt do a thing other thatn just disable my wordpress install all together. my salvation though was the Wordpress Plugin Manager and Spam Karma. so glad to know im not alone out there. congrats on beating down the @#$##^% spammers!

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