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use a redirect script (Score:4, Interesting)

by kellan (905) on 2004.02.07 12:39 (#28168) Homepage Journal

instead of linking directly to external URLs have your formatter point them to a redirect script thus negating the Google value of the links. if the spammers are adding links by hand they'll figure it out quickly.

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- Re:use a redirect script (Score:3, Informative)
  
  by Matts (1087)
  
  Ah, thanks for this idea. This is the option I've chosen (as it's the simplest to implement). I wrote a little redirector that makes sure the referrer contains one of my domains (to stop email/spam use) and now all external links go through that.
  
  I also added a page for porn spammers to go and read, and added it to all the "Edit" screens so hopefully they will go and read it.

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