Weeding more reference spammers

I was happy for two days with my ShortStat patch that I wrote on Friday. Then the spammers changed the tactics (or I just got hit with new spammers using an alternative method), and inserted the spam words in the path of the URL.

My domain checking code was useless against these, as the domain names were generic, such as aaaaa.com. Fortunately, the same idea could be applied to the path as well.

I inserted yet another test to the same loop that checked for the domain names, and lo — the spammers were gone from the listings.

I’ve currently wondering whether this was a coincidence or are spammers reading my blog? In the latter case I could feel flattered…