referrer spam sucks

Not as debilitating as comment or trackback spam, but nonetheless chews through bandwidth like nobody's business. Tonight this site got hit pretty hard.

Fortunately, Caveat Lector demonstrates how to use .htaccess to block commonly used strings in the spamming urls, so that one does not need to enter each url individually. (Which, until tonight, I was. Ugh.)

If you decide to try this, be forewarned: the .htaccess file is the touchy sort. One misplaced space can render your site inaccessible. Yup.

Back tomorrow.