1.The first link serves "stealth" to an asp script in the page, but does not seem to have any meaning. Maybe if you go trough the code more, you can see if they do anything with the input. A quick glance did not reveal anything and I did not want to spend too much time on it.
2. The other link get you to a pearl script who redirects you to an other server. in this case http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2540321.stm the number 750 is the link or can be an combination of link and id. Since it does not display any return to Grist etc. it does not seems to have any other purpose than serving the information. Hard to see the value for Grist. If it is a bot, it is not very smart way to do this things. Number 2 does not have any real meaning in this sense. I am not sure of what this really is. It could be a way to automatically mail info to lists and in this case it is a mailing program that must categorize news and then send it to lists that match the category. As long as this is good information, I cannot see the harm in doing it. Would it be a useless spamming, it is another thing. Since link 2 does not force anyone to actually visit the Grist site or actually solicit anything. Hakan At 10:07 AM 12/10/2002 -0500, you wrote: >I think it means just what it says, they can't get any referer >information from someone's email, I guess it is to give statistics on >how many hits 'Olivia' stirs up. >I don't know the purpose of the forward.pl other than to give themselves >inflated hit reports, maybe for advertisers? > > >Keith Addison wrote: > > >If they're spammers they'd probably lie. I'd quite like to catch them > >at it. I wondered whether you might know how the "?source=stealth" > >bit in the url works, could be the giveaway. > > > >The two links: > >http://www.gristmagazine.com/daily/daily120402.asp#3?source=stealth > >http://www.gristmagazine.com/forward.pl?forward_id=750 > > > > > > > > > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Biofuels list archives: >http://archive.nnytech.net/ > >Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. >To unsubscribe, send an email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
