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@  agyat : (23 May 2013 - 01:23 AM) Wow! Mr. Sb Back Home.
@  OpaQue : (23 May 2013 - 12:44 AM) Ting
@  OpaQue : (24 April 2013 - 02:44 PM) I guess, Time to run Mycent script.
@  OpaQue : (24 April 2013 - 02:43 PM) wow.. not much spam. except habatt posting lot of links.. :P
@  yordan : (23 April 2013 - 01:04 PM) You're welcome, agyat. Nice to have been helpful. Second lesson: try full words, "you" instead of "EW".
@  agyat : (23 April 2013 - 05:03 AM) @YORDAN: tHANK EW FOR YOUR FIRST LESSON.   :D
@  yordan : (22 April 2013 - 09:43 PM) @agyat : "why don't you help me", or "please help me", or "please teach us"
@  yordan : (22 April 2013 - 09:42 PM) welcome back, velma
@  velma : (22 April 2013 - 07:51 AM) **yawns** Good to be back, wonder what is going on here :)
@  agyat : (22 April 2013 - 03:50 AM) Oh! so, why don't help me learn english..
@  yordan : (21 April 2013 - 08:38 PM) The goal mentioned by shiu : "learning english, learning computer"
@  agyat : (21 April 2013 - 06:31 PM) WHAT GOAL?
@  yordan : (20 April 2013 - 10:39 AM) yes, that's our goal. simultaneouly learning English and teaching/learning computer using.
@  shiyu : (20 April 2013 - 07:30 AM) learning english,learning computer
@  yordan : (19 April 2013 - 01:11 PM) Oh, I see, it's just a trick in order to force people looking at your texte. Somehow smart, maybe.
@  agyat : (19 April 2013 - 02:54 AM) And of course I know it is not SEO friendly.
@  agyat : (19 April 2013 - 02:52 AM) There may be two possible answers for that ....


1) Shout was posted using mobile keypad.

2) To force people read content carefully and/or with more concentration.
@  agyat : (19 April 2013 - 02:49 AM) There may be two possible answers for that ....
@  yordan : (18 April 2013 - 09:35 PM) however, why this mixing of capital letters in the middle of your text?
@  agyat : (18 April 2013 - 11:10 AM) false feelings.

Replying to Kill Spammers Before They Arrive


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Posted 09 January 2011 - 12:17 PM

Recently, I encounted serious spammer attacking. They came like water fall, registering every minute, never stop. I had to install a humanity protection plugin. This plug in efficiently blocked the spammers. But the problem didn't end there-- the spammers kept trying to register. Every registering activity requires the register page from server, at the end, it cost me 3000mb bandwidth per month. A small site with limited resources like mine, this is a lot, and my site really got slower and slower. So, I searched around and found this little code to kill them permenently, before they comsume my bandwidth. Here's the code:
Put this code in your .htaccess file.
Change "your-signup-page.php" to your signup page slug. For example, if your signup page is http://domain.com/register.php, then, change it to "register.php". if your signup page is http://domain.com/register, then, change it to "register"
Change "your-domain" to the domain of your blog.
Optionally, change "die-spammers.com" to whatever page you wish to send the spammers.

What does this code do?
It detect any POST requests (submitting a form) for your signup page, that haven’t been referred by any of your other pages, or have an empty user agent string (identifying the software making the request), and sends them to endless hell.

This code finally solved my problem. From the log, I can see the requirsts from spammers for my register page gets 0 bytes loaded, bandwidth saved. Spammers loss the war.

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