Re: [Asrg] New type of spam?

[Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at nber.org>]

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Reinhold Jordan wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I found more and more requests to my website with referers that
> doesn't link to me. Porn and other useless things known from spam.
> 
> The requests come from servers like *.rogers.com, *.rr.com,
> *.comcast.net already known from sending spam. Or new servers
> like *.dial1.boston1.level3.net
> 
> I add a few lines of code to my website to forward such requests to
> the referer. So there is less traffic for me and more for them.

But the way you describe the situation, the request must come from a
broken browser or robot. After all, if the other server doesn't link to
you, how would it get into the referrer field? Am I confused? What would
be the motive? 

> 
> Did anyone notice such requests?
> 
> Regards, Reinhold
> 
> 



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