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ximinezA brief public service announcement. If you run your own web server, don't make your server logs (or summaries of them) publicly accessible. The reason: referrer spam. Asshole spammers pound your website all day with their site as the referrer, so that your logs are filled with their garbage.
I doubt they expect little direct benefit -- visitors to my site are not likely to click on a link to phentermine.at.mimanet.com (note, don't go to that site.) -- but by having a legit looking link on a legit site, it boosts their Google rankings, and who knows what other indirect benefits they get.
Form more info, Google "referrer spam", or
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/5/30/22341/3757
http://antispam.foundnews.com/archives/category/referrer-spam/
http://www.ihelpyou.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9595
This issue has been around for a few years, but it's the first I've heard about it, and I figure I'm probably not the only one.
I doubt they expect little direct benefit -- visitors to my site are not likely to click on a link to phentermine.at.mimanet.com (note, don't go to that site.) -- but by having a legit looking link on a legit site, it boosts their Google rankings, and who knows what other indirect benefits they get.
Form more info, Google "referrer spam", or
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/5/30/22341/3757
http://antispam.foundnews.com/archives/category/referrer-spam/
http://www.ihelpyou.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9595
This issue has been around for a few years, but it's the first I've heard about it, and I figure I'm probably not the only one.
