Website Optimization and Promotion

yup, that’s it! All of this spam and I finally snapped!

I’ve been getting prodigious amounts of spam attempts coming through a few select forms that I have on the web, but the spammers never knew that I was silently killing off their spam attempts and emailing myself the attempted messages without allowing the rest of the world to suffer their pathetic wrath.

After getting tired of seeing the same domains picked on about 50 times per day, I finally decided to get creative. The form is now returning a 403 which normally means Unauthorized, but instead of using the traditional “unauthorized” text, I decided it was time to vent my fury on the spamming fools who deserve it.

Introducing the 403 (F*ck Off) HTTP Header. More powerful than ‘you don’t belong here’ or ‘you can’t do that’ I think the new message puts it so succinctly. Period. Point-blank.