Dirty tricks
Mua-hahahahaha. I love this trick of Parker’s and have implemented it here. If you’ve cut-and-pasted from me, here’s how you can too.
Change
BadReferrer
to
BadReferrer=yes
Get rid of the line
deny from env=BadReferrer
Then at the end of your file add these lines:
RewriteCond %{ENV:BadReferrer} ^yes$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %1 [R=301,L]
And chew up some of the spammer’s bandwidth the way they want to chew ours. Beautiful work, for which I am grateful.