An interesting episode: one of my customers discovered 27 referrals in his
report from www.persiankitty.com (don't look unless you expect porn). His is
a low-traffic site, so that 27 referrers made the Kitty his second highest
referring site, and he was a little embarrassed to be pointed to from a porn
site, but since his site is a privacy news thing, he figured it was logical.
So anyway, I kind of wondered what kind of porn "community" would be
aboveboard about privacy, so I looked. (Really, it was just that, no
*honest*.) No link. Odd. So I checked the original log. And what I found
was that someone had spidered my customer's entire (27-page) site, and each
line had Referer of www.persiankitty.com and a Browser of "Mozilla/5.0".
The host IP was 63.73.211.5 and that resolves to saqnad.neurotic.org -- oddly,
the timing of the hits seemed nearly human, with many seconds between hits,
but each and every link was followed, sometimes quickly, so it may have been
automated. No hit to robots.txt.
My question: has anyone else seen this, and does everybody think this would be
a reasonable sort of thing to add to a spider exclusion list? Is it my
paranoia that makes this seem like porn spam? Wouldn't access log spamming be
a really pathetic way to advertise? But can anybody think of some other
motivation to have done that?
I need some caffeine. The world is taking me offguard again.
Michael
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