October 27, 2002
Referrer spam take three

Seems this is now of more interest.. wired just did a story on this new spam form.

Referral logs, intended to collect information on who visited a website and how they happened to arrive there, are being stuffed with bogus links. Curious bloggers who click on a logged link to see who visited their site are instead led to pornography or advertising sites.


No kidding.. I wrote about it here, here and here.

Spammers, once again, take something useful and make it less so.. and where's our legislature in all this? Oh yes, too busy protecting rights of corporations instead of the people they're supposed to serve.

Repeat after me..
It is NOT okay to use someone's resources to spam them with marketing messages..
It is NOT okay to interfere with someone's usage of email to spam them with marketing messages.
It is NOT okay to interfere with someone's usage of system logs to spam them with marketing messages.
It is NOT okay to interfere with someone's usage of the internet to spam them with marketing messages.
It is NOT okay to fill peoples lives with marketing messages.

Fictional entities (corporations) should not have rights above those of living humans (dead ones can't be spammed).

How long before http://www.weblogs.com and http://blo.gs can no longer defend themselves from spammers and will discontinue their services? I'm guessing less than a year. Thanks a lot.

Posted October 27, 2002 03:10 AM in Blogging , Spam sucks
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Comments
On October 27, 2002 09:46 AM john added:

I'm there with you Kasia... know any good lawyers interested in a Class Action?

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On October 28, 2002 11:45 AM PopeMatt added:

Pfft, that is totally not true. The person who last lived at my apartment (who is now dead) somtimes receives more physical spam than I do.

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On January 28, 2003 07:35 PM Matthias added:

I'm with you too!
It's a long time ago, this entry! But it's still on topic!! But the worse thing is email spam. I get a couple of it every day. THIS SUCKS!!!

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On August 30, 2003 01:06 PM hardy added:

try a spam filter ....

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