Conspiracies everywhere
I woke up to referrers from report-abuse.dmoz.org today.’
Huh? How come they were accessing the post where I celebrated being included on dmoz?
Then I found who’d probably reported me.
I also posted my take on what happened in my original post. Let’s just say the person who wrote abuse must see conspiracies everywhere…
Update
They’re talking about this post on the dmoz forums. I’m SOOO curious what they’re saying, but don’t have access.
June 8th, 2005 at 3:52 pm
Don’t worry about the forum discussion. The gist of things is that it seems wrong that you saw a referrer like that. It’s apparently a bug in the setup somewhere. Innocent and guilty parties both shouldn’t know about what sites are mentioned in an accusation. If this isn’t a new bug, I’m surprised nobody else has reported finding what you found.
June 8th, 2005 at 3:59 pm
It’s not a bug. Anywhere a live link is clicked on, the recipient site is going to know where the click came from, unless there’s a script that redirects the click, obscuring what page the link was on.
The reason nobody’s said anything before is most likely that few people look at raw logs or referrers quite the same way I do. One referrer would drown in most setups. I keep on top of my referrers any time I can, because of the spam hunting. You can see so much from referrers and raw log entries when you’re talking about people who are slightly paranoid. So the referrers are scrutinized on a whole other level than normal site owners would bother with.
June 8th, 2005 at 10:06 pm
Yes yes, I’m talking about the URL not being obscured by a script. It’s probably something someone forgot to set up. I realize direct links send lots of information.