Re: [Asrg] New type of spam?

[Reinhold Jordan <reinhold at bachrain.de>]

Hello,

> 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?

e. g. wget can do this with option --referer

> Am I confused? What would be the motive?

I think some sites show their referers (like my own). If one treat
enough sites to show his name, searching-engines list this name
at a better position.

Regards, Reinhold

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