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m002-01.bess.net - - [04/Jan/2004:20:01:16 -0800] "HEAD /blog/ HTTP/1.0" 200 0 "http://www.dickgephardt2004.com/" "StarProse Referrer Advertising System 2004"
Well... if you can sell it and someone will buy it, what the heck. Maybe Gephardt was asked to be the party sacrificial lamb to test out new ways of annoying people (I've heard from others that have received spam from the Gephardt campaign). The value here is hitting sites which make their raw referrer logs available to the public somehow (a lot of weblogs do this). With one quick hit you get mindshare. Since I don't, the usefulness is at least somewhat reduced.
Comment spam is all about doing the same sort of thing on a more permanent basis.
I wrote that last night and today I was sent some more information...
Doc wrote Say it ain't Joe on Saturday and then it hit MeFi. Shawn Allison has seen the StarProse journal nonsense too.
Posted by Dave at January 5, 2004 04:19 PMparis-somebodyorother-video.blogspot.com (not the real URL) is doing the same to my blog Clack (and hundreds of others in the blogsphere). They average 5 referral spams on clack per day.
I've added a rewrite rule to my .htaccess file to return a "forbidden" page when a referral comes from that site.
see this entry: http://www.jethrotech.com/blogs/Clack/archives/000233.html