Death to the spam

My webserver reports over 25,000 hits for the month of November ... the problem is, the vast overall majority of it is pure spam to the b2evolution blog software. See, the b2evo software has a "feature" (?) that posts a link to the most recent referrer to send a hit; it also posts links to the top referrers. Thus, spam bots search the web looking for b2evo blogs and begin sending fake hits to get their URLs on those lists.

I removed the link bot parts of the code, but those idiots aren't smart enough to figure that out ... so while they weren't actually getting any traffic, they continued to spam me anyway. I have finally had enough and by December 1st I will remove the b2evo software so that I can restore accuracy to my hit counters.

This is sad, because I really liked the b2evo software. I have opted to switch to a 3rd party solution, blogger.com ... there is no import feature, so I will need to go back and post all my old blogs again. I don't think I can keep the comments, sorry.

So that's the situation, I've got a lot of work to do ... I'll make a relevant

JoeJoe

UPDATE: all previous blog posts have been moved to the new blog server, hopefully everything is in tact. If you find any broken links or what not, use the contact form at my site to let me know. Thanks!