More from the ‘things I hate…’ files

Yes, you read that correctly. The number is 74. But db, you ask, what does it mean?

Today, from 08:17AM to 08:24AM, that is the number of times trackback spam attempts happened at dbmini. I say spam attempts, but that is really, again, more like an attack. This doesn’t count the rest of the garbage I found, which is more than 100 other attempts at spam in the same period. Yes, that’s right, in 7 minutes this morning dbmini.us was hit over 200 times in an attempt to spam! This is no longer spamming!

I have been vigiliant tho with my .htaccess rules. And, it’s paying off. Here is a snap shot of my server errors so far for the month of March: Click the image for a larger version

Still a ton of bandwidth being used up, but at least thier crap and garbage isn’t getting through. I would say I’m stopping 99% of them. I’d rather it be 100%, but that would be asking too much.

If you would like to check out my .htaccess file, comment below and I’ll make it available.

I know I’m not the only one with this problem. These f’ing spammers don’t give a crap obviously. What if I needed accurate logs because I had advertisers (something I’ve seriously considered doing over there)? What if I had a limited bandwidth account? I mean, it is, but not so bad where I notice. And finally, what if I really wanted to see the crap they are peddling? 100% OF THOSE MOTHER F’ING SITES ARE TAKEN AND THE URL’S ARE BAD! I WOULD BET THAT THE SITES COME DOWN BEFORE THE FIRST F’ING PIECE OF CRAP EVEN HITS A SINGLE SITE!

I mean, shit. These people are really pissing me off. Just stop already.

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