Posted by Athel Cornish-Bowden on 10/28/07 16:53

On 2007-10-28 17:03:21 +0100, "Safalra (Stephen Morley)"
<usenet@safalra.com> said:

> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:59:33 +0100, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
>> I was looking at our statistics (compiled by an external service called
>> awstats) and was surprised to notice that a high proportion of pages
>> under the heading Liens depuis une page externe (autres sites, hors
>> moteurs) (i.e. Links from an external page (other sites, other than
>> search engines)) come from a site that has absolutely no connection
>> with or relevance to our server. It's a porn site, and as I'm not in
>> the business of publicizing porn sites I won't give the URL unless it's
>> absolutely necessary to resolve my query. What is puzzling me is that
>> there is absolutely nothing in the source code that looks like a link,
>> whether to our site or anywhere else other than to another page on the
>> same site. [...]
>
>
> This sounds like standard referrer log spam. See the Wikipedia article for
> an overview:
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referer_spam

Yes, from the description given there it does appear that that is what
they're doing.
--
athel

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