From time to time I check my spam folder to see if some legitimate emails ended up there. The subject lines of those mails are pretty boring most of the time. Sometimes however, the ones trying to sell you viagra and related crap are so grotesque that it is funny in a (sad) way.
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Almost two years ago, UGent implemented anti spam measures that reduced the amount of spam messages in my UGent email account considerably from 20 something each day to zero. But recently the daily amount of spam that reaches my inbox is growing again in an unfavorable way:
The logs of my (drupal powered) website show a lot of referer spam. Some time ago I had this statistics page which contained a listing of the last 10 pages my site's visitors came from (aka referers). Soon spambots found out and spammed this list. I made the list invisible for anonymous visitors, but nevertheless spambots stil target my site (less frequent than when the list was visible, however), polute my stats, use bandwidth, use processing power and kill those cute little puppies. Now I went a bit further to block those dirty spambots ...