Archive for April, 2006

Lame form letters.

Posted in Link Exchange on April 8th, 2006

Please, please, can you test your software before sending out mistakes like this.

As a reminder, your site <yoursite> was submitted to the ****** search engine on <submissiondate>. We hope you are getting a lot more traffic from this submission. ALSO…

Hiding referrer spam urls.

Posted in Referrer spam on April 8th, 2006

Allegedly Allen of Internet Warriors is using GarbURL to hide his url when posting referrer spam . Below are some lines from one of our log files. Interesting idea. Why get your own domain black listed when you can hide behind someone else?

c-24-34-210-63.hsd1.ma.comcast.net - - [04/Apr/2006:08:18:55 +1000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 10801 “http://www.graburl.c*m/x.php?3×6″ “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MS
IE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)”
c-24-34-210-63.hsd1.ma.comcast.net - - [04/Apr/2006:08:18:57 +1000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 10801 “http://www.graburl.c*m/x.php?3×6″ “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MS
IE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)”
c-24-34-210-63.hsd1.ma.comcast.net - - [04/Apr/2006:08:18:59 +1000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 10801 “http://www.graburl.c*m/x.php?3×6″ “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; al
pha 06; AmigaOS)”
c-24-34-210-63.hsd1.ma.comcast.net - - [04/Apr/2006:08:19:00 +1000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 10801 “http://www.graburl.c*m/x.php?3×6″ “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Vo
yager; AmigaOS)”
c-24-34-210-63.hsd1.ma.comcast.net - - [04/Apr/2006:08:19:01 +1000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 10801 “http://www.graburl.c*m/x.php?3×6″ “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; AR
exx; AmigaOS)”
c-24-34-210-63.hsd1.ma.comcast.net - - [04/Apr/2006:08:19:05 +1000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 10801 “http://www.graburl.c*m/x.php?3×6″ “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; AW
EB 3.4 SE; AmigaOS)”
c-24-34-210-63.hsd1.ma.comcast.net - - [04/Apr/2006:08:19:07 +1000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 10801 “http://www.graburl.c*m/x.php?3×6″ “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MS
IE 6.0; Amiga OS)”