How To Block Annoying Referrer Spammers?
By Adrian Sutton
There’s a very persistent (and very stupid) referrer spammer pummelling my blog and I’m getting sick of it – not least of all because at one point it actually managed to completely overwhelm the tiny little virtual server my blog runs on so that nothing else could access it. Given that I’m using WordPress with Apache, what’s the easiest way to block it?