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another ref spamming hosted by webair, same IP, same webmaster.
PING 2handjobs.com (209.200.2.107): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 209.200.2.107: icmp_seq=0 ttl=57 time=9.536 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.2.107: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=8.951 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.2.107: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=8.874 ms
5 OC48-POS6-0.mtl-bvh-cor-2.peer1.net (216.187.115.77) 0.657 ms 0.604 ms 0.799 ms
6 OC48POS5-0.mtl-core-a.peer1.net (65.39.166.173) 0.926 ms 1.043 ms 1.085 ms
7 OC48-POS2-0.nyc-telx-dis-a.peer1.net (216.187.115.130) 8.155 ms 7.958 ms 8.075 ms
8 OC48-POS3-0.nyc-teleh-dis-2.peer1.net (216.187.115.166) 8.395 ms 8.486 ms 8.209 ms
9 nyiix.NYC2.webair.net (198.32.160.100) 9.439 ms 9.007 ms 8.889 ms
10 csa010.nyc.webair.net (209.200.31.42) 12.452 ms 11.887 ms 8.465 ms
11 209.200.2.107 (209.200.2.107) 9.396 ms 8.945 ms 8.608 ms
The principle I?m complaining about is the particularly loathsome habit on the part of the weblog spammers of referrer log spamming. This is where they are trying to get their websites mentioned on referrer pages, ie. weblogs which show where people have visited from.
This is so easy to spam simply by writing a tool which fetches weblog pages repeatedly with their site in the referrer field. At first I thought it was harmless, but when you add up the sheer number of pages they fetch it really gets quite scary. It also polluted the count of how many people visit my website (at least until I installed a cookie based system, which they don?t affect). Out of the thousands of pages that are fetched each day from this site, only a quarter to a third are actually genuine people.
The rest are spammers with entirely suspicious URL?s in the referrer field. This is a waste of my money, and I don?t like other people wasting what is mine.
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