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The fantastic site of Lord Matthttp://lordmatt.co.uk/lordmattitem/337 [The fantastic site of Lord Matt] The evil annoyence that is referer spam: By adding his extra atribute to trackback and comment contents automatically your software stops any gain from the spam. While this does nothing to stop the spam this step makes the spam useless. After that it would be very wise to use ...

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