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No more referrers posted 24th March 2003

I’ve removed the referrers list until I work out how to filter out all the spam. The situation was manageable until this weekend, when I got bombarded with porn links. So if you have any filtering ideas, please leave a comment or get in touch directly.

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David Dorward wrote:

You could take the diveintomark route – fetch the referring page and search it for a link to the page on your site.

24 Mar 2003, 13:56 GMT

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