Comment on Fighting Trac Spam by Anders

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:01:48 -0700

The reason I knew that the web forms weren’t the source of the spam is that I added a “User-agent: * Disallow: /” blanket robots.txt, and since the entire point of the web form spam is to get a bunch of links that point at spam sites crawled by Google, if Google isn’t going to crawl the site, the spam posters can stop bothering us. I assume that the bots that spam web forms follow robots.txt in the same way that Google does to make sure that time is spent on sites that are crawled by Google. Since we don’t even want Google to be on our Trac installation, it was an easy thing to fix in a very final way.

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Comment on Fighting Trac Spam by Anders