over time, i've noticed more and more urls in my referral logs for my site
that are not, in fact, linking to my site. they are commercial sites that
have nothing whatsoever to do with art. it seems that they have bought some
service that places their url among referral logs.
the more general point is that it seems spam creeps into different forms of
information over time. email is of course the prime example. spam now
dominates email accounts.
as though there is some law of entropy and capitalism whereby information
sources tend to disorder/spam/noise over time?
ja
http://vispo.com
spamtropy
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Hi Jim,
I have noticed this too. I added a filter to my log file analyser todeal with this a while ago - evil referrals automatically get taggedas junk. I have a database of hundreds of these suspect domainscollected at this point.
The nice thing about this form of spam is that you can usuallydisqualify it pretty quickly - the domain names are generally agive-away and they tend not to travel beyond one page.
The absurd ones are the "resume" ones. What are these people thinking?
Jason Van Andenwww.smileproject.com
On 12/7/05, Jim Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:> over time, i've noticed more and more urls in my referral logs for my site> that are not, in fact, linking to my site. they are commercial sites that> have nothing whatsoever to do with art. it seems that they have bought some> service that places their url among referral logs.>> the more general point is that it seems spam creeps into different forms of> information over time. email is of course the prime example. spam now> dominates email accounts.>> as though there is some law of entropy and capitalism whereby information> sources tend to disorder/spam/noise over time?>> ja> http://vispo.com>>> +> -> post: [email protected]> -> questions: [email protected]> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support> +> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php>
Hi Jason,
After I posted, I thought I'm probably mistaken in thinking that the weirdly inappropriate URLs are showing up in our log files out of design. But I sure don't know why they are showing up. And, yes, they are obviously inappropriate, aren't they. Gambling sites, lots of pharmaceutical sites, stuff like that (on my log, anyway). They don't seem like sites that would be spidering other sites, either. So it's a wee spam mysteree.
Spamtropy: the tendency of information streams to be dominated by sales noise?
ja
> Hi Jim,
>
> I have noticed this too. I added a filter to my log file analyser to
> deal with this a while ago - evil referrals automatically get tagged
> as junk. I have a database of hundreds of these suspect domains
> collected at this point.
>
> The nice thing about this form of spam is that you can usually
> disqualify it pretty quickly - the domain names are generally a
> give-away and they tend not to travel beyond one page.
>
> The absurd ones are the "resume" ones. What are these people thinking?
>
> Jason Van Anden
> www.smileproject.com