Porn sites are spamming my web stats. Make it stop.

Milkman Dan — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:53:16 -0800

Porn sites are spamming my web stats. Make it stop. For a few months now, my referral log has been flooded by mildly amusing, but mostly annoying, porn site URLs. These sites are throwing off my data entirely, filling the log with anywhere from 1 to 200 hits each. Almost all of them are over-the-top porn URLs. I want it to stop.

I know what the phenomenon is, and I’ve read all the other AskMe threads about it. I’m not interested in diagnostics, I want to know the cure. I run WordPress, and I’m currently running the Bad Behaviour plug-in, and have been for two months, but the problem has remained. Yes, I run Google Analytics as an alternative, but I’d like to solve the problem within this stats program (Webalizer Version 2.01), too.

Clear, step-by-step instructions would be most helpful, but any suggestions would be much appreciated. Oh, and you can click here to view my referral log from May.

How can I best deal with my mother's counterproductive Xmas related nagging?

Flitcraft — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 13:46:29 -0800

Christmas family hell come early - how can I best deal with my mother's counterproductive Xmas related nagging? ( I'll post more inside) My mother has started nagging already about how much time my fiancé and I will be spending with her at Christmas. He doesn’t like her and I find her difficult – so I planned on a quick visit with an overnight. My mother wants us to spend two nights and because I wouldn’t sign up to this, started saying some jaw-dropping stuff about my partner. I can now look forward to having this sort of awful telephone conversation with her every week until Christmas as she nags, nags, nags about when we are visiting and what we are doing. If I don’t answer the phone, then she starts ringing me at work where I can’t screen my calls. I’m really fed up of this vicious circle where she nags us to visit in such a way that she makes us want to avoid her at all costs, but I don’t know how to tackle it. I’ve tried lots of self help books off Amazon, but to no avail, they say stuff like ‘empathise with her’ it works for about five minutes and then she says stuff that drives me stark staring mad again. What have people tried in similar situations that worked?

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Porn sites are spamming my web stats. Make it stop.

How can I best deal with my mother's counterproductive Xmas related nagging?