The Wikipedia is amazing. In addition to being one of the best sources of news about major current events, it has code snippets, like this one to fight Referer spam.
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Hey,
I guess I’m going to have to start learning Apache, Fetchmail, & Sendmail now. I just got vmware going on my ubuntu hd and was thinking about redoing my whole setup anyway… ubuntu/XP home.
Looks like every rose has its thorn
As for topic – Wikipedia really rules and I hate those who put false info in it