[LINK] weird referral page

[Peter Bowditch]

I haven't seen anything suspicious for a while, but for some time I used 
to get a lot of referrals each month from Texas holdem poker sites. Not as 
glamorous as porn sites, but just as annoying.

> Jan Whitaker wrote:
> > I have just looked at my webstats and found a very weird referring
> URL:
> > -- freeliveporno.org
> > Not only that, there were FOUR hits from it!
> 
> This is referer spam.  Connecting clients can pass anything they like
> in the referer field, and spammers know that people log referers --
> and in some case put the logs online, complete with links back to
> the top referring pages.
> 
> So spammers fake a whole pile of http requests with the domains they
> are trying to promote as referers, hoping to get either automated
> links or traffic from webmasters looking at their logs.  
> 
> These are not real requests, just automated spambots.
> 
> Danny.
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