Re: [Summary-Talk] referrer spam

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ryan Barrett wrote:
> 
> having said that, does anyone have any tips on dealing with referrer 
> spam using summary?

There isn't currently any support in Summary for keeping referrer SPAM
from appearing in your reports. That is an interesting idea for future
versions of Summary. I will add it to the wish list.

> it's a huge problem for my site, and i handle it 
> mainly with a hand-maintained blacklist. (a gross hack, i know.)
> i'd be ok with porting my blacklist to summary, as long as it can handle 
> filters with thousands of lines.

The UI in Summary limits you to defining filters with up to about 10K of
text. In practice that means hundreds of filters, not thousands. You can
manipulate the configuration file directly to define more filters, but
doing so is not officially supported. With thousands of filters Summary
would slow down rather dramatically.

> i'm open to better ideas, though. i'd 
> love to add support for MT-Blacklist or SpamLookup (links below), but 
> since summary isn't open source, i'd settle for a script that 
> automatically updates a summary filter from public blacklists.

Installing similar functionality in Summary would slow log processing
down dramatically. Refer SPAM is a significant issue for some people,
and some of them wouldn't mind the slowdown, so I will look into this as
a possible future feature.

Jason

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