Re: [Asrg] New type of spam?

[James Lick <jlick at drivel.com>]

Daniel Feenberg wrote:

> 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? 
>  

They are trying to get onto the 'sites that link to us' lists that are 
usually automatically generated from referer logs.  Also some blogging 
software automatically adds links to other sites that reference an 
article.  If they can get those links onto other pages then they 1) get 
more people clicking through to their site and 2) their page rank in 
search engines goes up.

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