Unbelievable
Nothing against your software, its great that you wrote it. But just a comment about the fact that it had to be written. Its unbelievable that its coming to this. Having to write programs to match advertisements that are being put into webserver log files through referal headers. What is our precious little internet coming too.
Having received some "referer spam" myself, once I realized what it was, I was less inclined to do any business with the refered site. I guess they are counting on less technical people who read their stats to follow the links. Sigh. I digress.
One thing about this though that makes it different from email spam is that you can be pretty sure that you can send a message back to the spammer by putting a long message in the URL that you go to to get to the refered site, like this:
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Unbelievable
Nothing against your software, its great that you wrote it. But just a comment about the fact that it had to be written. Its unbelievable that its coming to this. Having to write programs to match advertisements that are being put into webserver log files through referal headers. What is our precious little internet coming too.
Having received some "referer spam" myself, once I realized what it was, I was less inclined to do any business with the refered site. I guess they are counting on less technical people who read their stats to follow the links. Sigh. I digress.
One thing about this though that makes it different from email spam is that you can be pretty sure that you can send a message back to the spammer by putting a long message in the URL that you go to to get to the refered site, like this:
www.stupidspammer.com/... DOING REFERAL SPAMMING