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Network World Fusion 04/04/03

But not in the way you might think (although, yes, there are pornblogs). A lot of Weblog owners are, how to put this tactfully, very, very interested in their referrer logs. A lot even proudly post them publicly so others can see where their visitors are coming from.

Dave Winer, who runs the well known Scripting News site reports porn sites have started to take advantage of this:

"[O]ne of our sites is getting pounded by porn sites, in an unusual way. They hit the site just enough so that their site shows up in the top sites list in the referers report. It's spam, with a very small audience. It's also easy to defend against. All we have to do is program our server to filter out the offending sites. "

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hello

Posted by: nick wainwright on April 24, 2003 08:12 PM

Pidar

Posted by: pidar on June 21, 2003 12:21 AM

Interesting tid bit of information. Where's the rest of it?

Posted by: Tom Cranston on August 23, 2003 11:12 PM

great

Posted by: Rosy on September 24, 2003 10:45 PM

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