There has to be a better way of blocking referrer spam than adding each bogus link to my .htaccess file individually. It’s a tedious process, and there are new links every day. A few weeks ago I made the mistake of clicking on one of those links instead of pasting it into my web browser. And, of course, it turned out to be porn — of the pop-up, gonna-have-to-shut-down-your-browser-to-get-rid-of-it variety. The deluge of fake referrers started the next day. More whois searches than I care to count revealed that they’re all owned by two or three people, but the link titles are so different — and they’re not immediately recongizable as porn — so there’s really no wildcard I can add to the .htaccess file.

Still, there’s gotta be something I can do with these fuckers’ e-mail addresses, right?