Whitelist hits by referrers -- ignore all other referrers

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I would like to set up my referrer ignore list as a whitelist rather than a blacklist. Most of my visitors don't specify a referrer, and most of the rest come from a handful of known sites. Then there's a long tail of a myriad ever-changing spam referrers.

So whitelisting the good ones (including no referrer) would be much more convenient than blacklisting the bad ones. However, that would also require that WLE output a list of all views that were deleted because they were not whitelisted since a new good referrer might pop up. If that could be implemented I'd be grateful!
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Christoph Nahr
To further elucidate: I get hundreds of spam referrals, but usually the same referrer URL is repeated only 2-5 times before the spammers move on. Trying to keep up with that in blacklist form is impossible. Currently I know that my access statistics include hundreds of spam "visitors" and there's nothing I can do about that.

A whitelist would clean this up quickly and completely. I'd miss some legitimate views, sure, but most of the <10 hit referrers are spam. The number of removed spam views would far exceed the number of missed legitimate views.
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Michael
Thank you, we'll consider adding this feature.